Slide the entire tonic maj7 shape down one fret — parallel planing, every voice moving together — and simply stay. Where the Neapolitan slide visits and returns, this one signs a lease. Neo-soul's favorite exit: no cadence, no pivot, just the light changing.
hear it in neo-soul interludes · quiet-storm outros
Lead-in — how players set it upSit on 1Δ7 long enough that the slide reads as weather.Or glide via the b2Δ7 first — two half-step lights dimming.Or plane down mid-phrase under a held melody note.Follow — where it usually goesDrift the new key's Δ7 neighborhood — 4Δ7, back, settle.Glide again — planed Δ7s will walk as far as you let them.Or anchor: one front-door cadence forgives all the drifting.
Plane the melodic phrase down with the chord — parallel maj7 melody a half step lower, then rest there like it's home. It is now.Target tones (in C)Cmaj7 — lean on E (3) · B (7)Bmaj7 — lean on D# (3) · A# (7)Emaj7 — lean on G# (3) · D# (7)Half-step wiresC ↘ B · E ↘ D# · D# → E · A# → BAcross the borderno shared tonic tones with B — cut clean and re-land