Find a chord both keys own, enter it as one thing, leave it as another. 6- of home is 2- of the key a fifth up — the smoothest exit ramp in the book, because the pivot itself is invisible.
hear it in the standard classical route · show-tune bridges
Lead-in — how players set it upReach 6- diatonically — from 1 or 4 — so the pivot is invisible.Or arrive at 6- deceptively — 5⁷ trapdoors into the pivot.Or from 4: predominants hand off to predominants, the smooth chain.Follow — where it usually goesCadence hard in the new key to lock the move in.Once landed, borrow inside the new key immediately — instant depth.Or pivot again from the new 6- — leapfrogging up in fifths.
Hold the pivot chord's 3rd across the border — same pitch, two passports, then descend in the new key.Target tones (in C)Am7 — lean on C (b3) · G (b7)D7 — lean on F# (3) · C (b7)G — lean on B (3)Half-step wiresG ↘ F# · F# → G · C ↘ BAcross the borderhold these into G: G