Chain truck-driver half steps chorus after chorus and each one re-lights the same hook. The technique is discipline, not harmony: identical material, rising floor. Four in a row is the famous ceiling.
hear it in “Love on Top” — four lifts, one hook
Lead-in — how players set it upEach lift rides the previous chorus's last bar.Or vary the ramps — pump-up one lift, hard cut the next.Or shorten the choruses as you climb — urgency compounds.Follow — where it usually goesIdentical material every time — the rising floor IS the arrangement.Cap the ladder with a breakdown at the top — earn the last one.Or end mid-ladder on a sus — the climb that never lands.
Two lifts need two peaks: save a higher melody note for the second — stacked keys deserve stacked ceilings.Target tones (in C)C — lean on E (3)Db — lean on F (3)D — lean on F# (3)Eb — lean on G (3)E — lean on G# (3)Half-step wiresC → Db · E → F · Db → D · F → F# · D → Eb · F# → GAcross the borderno shared tonic tones with Db — cut clean and re-land