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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.