// Level tags + the two intermediate progressions added by task P-20. // Intermediate-entry changes verified against: guitarmusictheory.com & // Hooktheory TheoryTab & musescore.com feature ("Just the Two of Us" — // D♭maj7–C7–Fm7 with the E♭m7–A♭7 ii–V pointing back at ♭VI, key of F minor), // Hooktheory TheoryTab & songdna.blogspot.com & spytunes.com ("Sir Duke" // verse B–G♯m–G–F♯7 = I–vi–♭VI7–V chromatic descent), // docs/progression-repertoire.md §2 (modal interchange, secondary dominants, // tritone substitution rows). export default [ { id: 'rnb-mediant-circle', name: 'Mediant circle (iii7–vi7–ii7–V)', 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.', level: 'foundation', }, { 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.', level: 'intermediate', }, { id: 'rnb-maj7-vamp', name: 'Two-chord maj7 vamp (Imaj7–IVmaj7)', rn: ['Imaj7', 'IVmaj7'], degrees: [0, 5], qualities: ['maj7', 'maj7'], bars: [2, 2], mode: 'major', songs: ['Waiting in Vain — Bob Marley', "Cruisin' — Smokey Robinson (I–ii7 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.', level: 'foundation', }, { id: 'rnb-dorian', name: 'Dorian vamp (i7–IV9, 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 (i–iv 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.', level: 'foundation', }, { id: 'rnb-gospel-amen', name: 'Gospel Amen (IV–iv–I)', 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.', level: 'intermediate', }, { id: 'rnb-justthetwo', name: 'Just-the-Two-of-Us loop (♭VI–V–i + ii–V of ♭VI)', rn: ['♭VImaj7', 'V7', 'i7', '♭vii7', '♭III7'], degrees: [8, 7, 0, 10, 3], qualities: ['maj7', 'dom7', 'min7', 'min7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 2, 1, 1], mode: 'minor', songs: ['Just the Two of Us — Grover Washington Jr. & Bill Withers', 'a smooth-soul/90s-R&B staple loop'], tip: 'A minor loop that spends most of its time away from home: ♭VI–V–i falls in half steps, then the ♭vii–♭III7 is a ii–V aimed back at ♭VI, not at i. Hearing ii–Vs that target chords other than the tonic is the door out of diatonic playing — in the original the last two chords share one bar.', level: 'intermediate', }, { id: 'rnb-chromatic-vi', name: 'Chromatic soul descent (I–vi–♭VI7–V)', rn: ['I', 'vi7', '♭VI7', 'V7'], degrees: [0, 9, 8, 7], qualities: ['maj', 'min7', 'dom7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'major', songs: ['Sir Duke — Stevie Wonder (verse)'], tip: 'One swapped chord makes it: where the diatonic loop would repeat vi or move to IV, the ♭VI7 (borrowed from the parallel minor) slides the bass down 6–♭6–5 in half steps. It doubles as a tritone sub of II7 (V/V) — either way the whole chord planes down a semitone into V.', level: 'intermediate', }, ]