Let roots fall in thirds — 1, 6-, 4 — and simply stop descending when you reach 4. Treated as an arrival instead of a waypoint, the staircase's bottom step becomes the new floor.
hear it in singer-songwriter descents that land and stay
Lead-in — how players set it upThe staircase starts at an unhurried 1.Or fall in sixths flavor — 1, 6-, 4Δ7 for the soft-focus version.Or keep falling past 4 once — 2- — then climb back to claim it.Follow — where it usually goesBottom step becomes floor: cadence in the 4-key and furnish it.Confirm upstairs with the new key's own falling thirds.Or use the landing as a bridge key — its 2⁷ is old 5⁷, a free ride home.
Descend in 3rds with the chords, but land each downbeat on the CURRENT chord's root — falling with handrails.Target tones (in C)C — lean on E (3)Am — lean on C (b3)F — lean on A (3)C7 — lean on E (3) · Bb (b7)F — lean on A (3)Half-step wiresE → F · F ↘ E · A → Bb · Bb ↘ AAcross the borderhold these into F: C