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68.19Level 7 — tonic duration
After a complicated turnaround:
land on Cmaj7.
Hold it for:
two bars.
Do not immediately start another substitution.
Let arrival actually arrive.
Many reharmonizations fail because tonic is never given enough time to feel stable.