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45.18Level 5 — change harmony

Use a simple two-chord laboratory:

Cm7 → F7

We are not recreating a specific song.

Suppose F7 begins next bar.

Instead of bass F on next beat 1:

play F on 4& of the preceding bar.

Then let beat 1 breathe.

This creates propulsion.