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73.99Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

A playful transition design could be:

New Orleans bounce

→ stop-time

→ tiny minor/cabaret interlude

→ boogie.

Use the same little melodic response as glue.

Or:

boogie LH gradually simplifies to one pedal

→ silence

→ bossa begins.

The contrast can be funny precisely because the boundary is controlled.