kb: add R&B/neo-soul guitar pack

5 progressions (mediant circle, Stevie 6-2-5-1 with 9sus V, maj7
two-chord vamp, D'Angelo Dorian vamp, gospel Amen IV-iv-I) x 2 plays:
m9 slides, m11 colour sets, embellished Mayfield/Hendrix barres,
Dilla-feel barre wash. Comping documents pluck-and-mute, the neo-soul
slide, hammer vocabulary, Cropper 6ths, the Dilla feel. Sourced
Mayfield figures (standard-tuning adaptation flagged). Validator and
build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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export default [
{
id: 'rnb-mediant-circle',
name: 'Mediant circle (iii7vi7ii7V)',
rn: ['iii7', 'vi7', 'ii7', 'V13'],
degrees: [4, 9, 2, 7],
qualities: ['min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['September — Earth, Wind & Fire (rotation family)', 'the soul turnaround started from the iii'],
tip: 'The 1-6-2-5 family entered from the mediant — home is implied for three bars before the V finally points at it. Neo-soul lives in that deferral.',
},
{
id: 'rnb-6251',
name: 'Soul 6-2-5-1 (with dominant II)',
rn: ['vi7', 'II9', 'V9sus', 'I'],
degrees: [9, 2, 7, 0],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7', 'sus4', 'maj'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ["Isn't She Lovely — Stevie Wonder"],
tip: 'The II is a secondary dominant (not the polite ii), and the V arrives as a 9sus — suspended, never quite dominant, melting into the I. Stevie\'s whole cadence language in four chords.',
},
{
id: 'rnb-maj7-vamp',
name: 'Two-chord maj7 vamp (Imaj7IVmaj7)',
rn: ['Imaj7', 'IVmaj7'],
degrees: [0, 5],
qualities: ['maj7', 'maj7'],
bars: [2, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Waiting in Vain — Bob Marley', "Cruisin' — Smokey Robinson (Iii7 variant)"],
tip: 'Two lush chords trading forever — the song is the texture. The same vamp underpins half of modern bedroom R&B; colour it differently every two bars.',
},
{
id: 'rnb-dorian',
name: 'Dorian vamp (i7IV9, D\'Angelo school)',
rn: ['i9', 'IV9'],
degrees: [0, 5],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1],
mode: 'dorian',
songs: ["Spanish Joint — D'Angelo", "Didn't Cha Know — Erykah Badu (iiv minor variant)", "Brown Sugar — D'Angelo (E Dorian loop)"],
tip: 'The IV9 carries the raised 6th that makes it Dorian — the same pair as the funk vamp, slowed to 70 BPM and dragged behind the beat.',
},
{
id: 'rnb-gospel-amen',
name: 'Gospel Amen (IVivI)',
rn: ['IVmaj7', 'iv6', 'Imaj7'],
degrees: [5, 5, 0],
qualities: ['maj7', 'min6', 'maj7'],
bars: [1, 1, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['the gospel "Amen" cadence', 'countless soul ballad turnarounds (borrowed iv)'],
tip: 'The IV turns minor on its way home — borrowed from the parallel minor, the single most-borrowed chord in soul. One semitone (the 3rd of the IV falling) does all the work.',
},
]