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70.98Apply the workflow to “Mack the Knife”
Use your legal lead sheet/ear-learned melody.
Do not begin from the full swing arrangement we previously designed.
Rebuild it:
- melody alone
- two-beat structural bass
- guide-tone line
- walking version
- texture escalation
- selective block chords
- chromatic bass near later cadences
- modulation only when the first-key arrangement already feels complete
Now the showstopper architecture grows from the song rather than being pasted onto it.