59.88Mini-composition exercise

Write a 16-bar neo-soul/R&B piano piece.

Requirements:

• stable 4/4
• no meter changes
• only 3–4 main roots
• one laid-back RH layer
• one centered bass reference
• one bass anticipation
• one grace-note chord slide
• one chromatic inner line
• one sus→3 dominant resolution
• one full-bar RH silence
• one breakdown
• one rich climax followed by sparse ending

The challenge is:

make the feel sophisticated without making the rhythm mathematically complicated.