90.115Apply it to “Mack the Knife”

Conceptually:

do not quote the copyrighted melody in full.

Instead, identify a short rhythmic characteristic from your legal chart/ear-learned version.

Use that rhythm as:

• sparse cabaret accompaniment cue
• later swing comping figure
• interlude horn-like stab
• modulating transition pattern
• tag figure

Now the whole arrangement carries one rhythmic fingerprint even as texture escalates.