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6.26Phrase skeleton exercise
Take any simple 8-bar song.
Your first analysis should be extremely crude.
Write something like:
Phrase 1: home → away → dominant
Phrase 2: home → away → dominant → home
Only afterward identify actual chord names.
This prevents you from getting lost in details.