March plain family chords straight up the scale, one step at a time. No pivots, no dominants — parallel motion does all the lifting. Lean on it going up for a build; walk it back down for the goodbye.
moveseverything moves in parallel steps — the scale IS the progressionsolo·singthe major scale, obviously — the trick is timing your line to the stairson recordLean on Me — Bill Withers (the literal walk up and back)try itReplace a static 1 → 4 with the full staircase: 1 → 2- → 3- → 4.