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77.98Apply it to “Happy Birthday”
Use the simple harmonic skeleton first.
Hear only:
tonic
departure
dominant
home.
Then add secondary dominants/pass-through harmony without changing your large melodic phrasing.
The exercise is:
can the arrangement become harmonically richer while your mental map remains simple?
That is the goal.