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105.18Level 8 — write functional skeleton before color

Example:

C | Am | Dm | G7 | C.

This is not “too basic.”

It is a harmonic skeleton.

Later you may change:

Am→A7

Dm→Dm9

G7→D♭7

but first hear the architecture.