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MODERN TRENDS                          85
the G13 chord with the 9th degree flattened—making an interesting sequence to end with, because all the chords used show tension in varying degrees:
Example 25
You can see now how there can be endless variations on this theme. If you are moving from a chord of Dm9, your bass note (D) is just one whole tone away from your final C. So why not 'slide down' to the final C, by way of the intervening semitone? In this example we have Dm9 followed by Db9 with the 9th degree sharpened—and the final C chord has not only the 6th degree added but also the 9th for good measure.
Example 26
Not one of these progressions is in any way 'modern'—the last of them may be found on any Tin Pan Alley popular song copy nowadays. But they do serve to illustrate how a very simple cadence