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35.72Ear Drill — local tonicization

Play:

Em7♭5-A7-Dm

then immediately:

Cm7-F7-B♭.

Can your ear accept:

D as 1

then B♭ as 1

without mentally relating every note to one global tonic?

That is the goal.