Sustain the 5th of home and reharmonize it as the 3rd of the key a minor third up — the other classic common-tone jump. One note stays lit while the room changes around it.
hear it in film-score rises · choral pivots
Lead-in — how players set it upVoice the last 1 with its 5th on top and let it ring.Or sing the 5 alone — a cappella common tone, then rebuild.Or approach the voicing from 4 so the top note pre-rings.Follow — where it usually goesThe new key's dominant makes the reveal official.Pair with the other mediant later — +3 then +4 tours the axis.Or come home on the same wire — hold the new 3, reveal old 1.
Hold the common tone THROUGH the +3 jump — one sustained pitch makes a cinematic cut feel inevitable.Target tones (in C)C — lean on E (3)Eb — lean on G (3)Bb7 — lean on D (3) · Ab (b7)Eb — lean on G (3)Half-step wiresE ↘ Eb · Eb ↘ D · G → Ab · D → Eb · Ab ↘ GAcross the borderhold these into Eb: G