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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.