Pop · Rock · FolkA minor → C major · same signature, new sunrise
6- (home) → 57 → 1 (stay)
The mirror of the Relative Swap: the song lives in the relative minor, then the chorus cadences into the major and stays. Zero new accidentals — the lights just come on.
hear it in “Little Red Corvette” — minor until the chorus sunrise
Lead-in — how players set it upVerse loops in the minor: 6-, 4, and 3⁷ keeping it dark.Or seed the chorus key early — one borrowed 1 major in the verse.Or run the minor's Andalusian walk right up to the door.Follow — where it usually goesThe major chorus owns 1, 4, 5 — save 6- for the next verse's return.Keep one minor chord in the chorus — 6- as a shadow of the verse.Or fall back to minor for verse two — the tide pattern.
Brighten phrase endings first: aim 6-then-1 endings at the relative major's 1 a phrase early — dawn before sunrise.Target tones (in C)Am — lean on C (b3)F — lean on A (3)G7 — lean on B (3) · F (b7)C — lean on E (3)Half-step wiresE → F · C ↘ B · B → C · F ↘ EAcross the borderhold these into C: C · E · G