1.   All Delta bluesmen, Johnson included, shared a floating stock of lyrics, melodies and rhythmic figures.

2.   Executing the Toccata at the speed limit normally imposed by Mother Nature would still allow room for the underlying melodic elements and bouncing rhythmic figures to be distinguishable.

3.   Mulligan, especially in his later years, was a rhythmic master, and his improvisations were filled with tricky rhythmic figures that ornamented his lines.

4.   Rhythmic figures everywhere appeared reverently exact.

5.   Rhythmic figures that required sharp, focused attacks, or even a slightly brutal touch, were fuzzy and polite, and balances were not consistently well-judged.

6.   This is a piece filled with wicked little rhythmic figures, and again there was seldom space to make them clear.

7.   With a tres guitar motoring away at rhythmic figures, the music, hardcore son, never stops.