Lesson 02 from Inside Moves, except you never come back. Tonicize the 4 chord and then just… live there for the bridge. Warm, relaxed, one flat away.
hear it in middle-eight standards · classical trios
Lead-in — how players set it upEnd the section on 1, flat its 7th, and lean.Or walk it: 1, 1⁷ with the b7 as a falling inner voice.Or approach through 2-⁷ so the 1⁷ reads as a ii–V of 4.Follow — where it usually goesVacation chords: new 1, new 4, maybe new 2- — then 1⁷ of THIS key sends you home again.Vacation itinerary: new 2- and new 5 keep the room furnished.Or return by mirror: the new key's own 5 is old 1 — walk back.
The old 1 is the new 5 — end your last old-key phrase ON it, and it becomes the first note of the new key's question.Target tones (in C)C — lean on E (3)C7 — lean on E (3) · Bb (b7)F — lean on A (3)Bb — lean on D (3)Half-step wiresE → F · Bb ↘ A · A → BbAcross the borderhold these into F: C