Jazz · Neo-SoulC → anywhere · demo lands on D (+2 FR)
new b27 → new 1
Approach any destination from a half step above with its tritone sub instead of its 5⁷. Same tritone inside, chromatic slide outside — the smooth-criminal version of the Pump-Up Ramp.
hear it in bebop heads · reharmonized standards
Lead-in — how players set it upAny phrase-end works; the b2⁷ appears one beat before impact.Or pre-load the sub's own 2-: a full tritone-sub ii–V.Or slide from a whole step above — two chromatic dominoes.Follow — where it usually goesSlide is complete on arrival — proceed diatonically.Land on 1Δ7 and drift — the slide wants silk after.Or confirm with the front door: a normal ii–V one phrase later.
Slip in on the b2⁷'s smooth notes — the key's 4 falling to the new 3 — and you've snuck through with the harmony.Target tones (in C)C — lean on E (3)Eb7 — lean on G (3) · Db (b7)Dmaj7 — lean on F# (3) · C# (7)Half-step wiresC → Db · E ↘ Eb · Eb ↘ D · G ↘ F#Across the borderno shared tonic tones with D — cut clean and re-land