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54.82Mini-composition exercise
Write a 24-bar soul-jazz piece in B♭.
Requirements:
- B♭6/9 tonic
- one repeated four-note hook
- IV E♭
- F7sus→F7
- IV→iv→I
- one G7→Cm secondary-dominant event
- one D♭→D blue-note gesture
- one stop-time section
- one block/octave hook climax
- final B♭6/9
Restriction:
No tritone substitution and no altered-dominant chain.
Make it rich without needing them.