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68.19Level 7 — tonic duration

After a complicated turnaround:

land on Cmaj7.

Hold it for:

two bars.

Do not immediately start another substitution.

Let arrival actually arrive.

Many reharmonizations fail because tonic is never given enough time to feel stable.