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6.69Level 29 — Ending

Pick the actual final tonal center of your arrangement and make it unmistakable.

Options:

  • plain ii–V–I
  • sus dominant → dominant → tonic
  • tritone-sub dominant → tonic
  • maj6/9 final voicing
  • tag based on opening motif

Do not let a harmonically complex tune have an accidental ending.