secondary dominants was my first "ah-ha" moment with off-keys chords that really work. It's all over the internet, but it's basically the V7 of any chord will resolve nicely.
I just purchased the Circle of Fifths Tool that you used here. I have been playing for a long time but my playing has been very generic and predictable. So... I started taking lessons a few months ago and have learned a little bit more theory. My teacher started demonstrating the substitute chords and I loved it. This thing is going to give me a great visual tool so that I can see how it all fits together.
I feel you can analyse to a lot of depth why a particular progression sounds good. Like in the Oasis song the borrowed flat VI chord "resolves" nicely to the V chord, all notes going down by a semitone, and then the V resolves to the tonic. This double resolution sounds like giving up: goodbye, I'm going home. Songwriting can be so amazing and fun.
I analyze on paper. Just like Soren said, those upper structures share 3 common tones with the diminished chords including a dominant 7th found in the major scale of the chord being played. It’s a Chord substitution.
I am curious about where you learned all of this, college program, books, or did you put some of it together yourself? The more of your videos I see the more I think I should sign up for your courses, but I am not familiar with locals and how that works. Wonder if you could add more info on that? Thanks for posting
What I dont understand is when you borrow a chord from the parallel minor key, how does one choose which of those 7 chords to use? I mean the explanation with the triangle gives it some logic, but I dont think Oasis was really thinking geometrically. So is there a further logical system as to which chords from the parallel minor to choose from? Also what other keys can you borrow chords from and what is the logic behind that??
@mikegeorge360 See if this makes sense: The "basic" progression is: I - IV - V - (I),.. ..the III and vi are "delaying moves" to "slow down" getting to IV,.. ..the III was chosen INSTEAD of the iii because it's "closer" to IV than a iii due to it's "raised 3rd" and sounds "intriguing",. ..the vi was chosen because it "brackets" both the IV and V (it's an "overshoot") and "sets up " for a "loop back" to the IV,.. ..the IV is the "change target" that lightly resolves the tune in the middle,.. ..the bVI was chosen as a "delay" to the V, as it's an "overshoot" of the V that is "just barely beyond" the V, adding "intrigue",.. ..then the V is reached to signify that "we're almost home,.. maybe", causing us to anticipate an upcoming I,.. ..and then we resolve with an actual I. The "out of key" chords are chosen to "fit between" chords that we would expect, to DELAY our progress, and therefore create "intrigue and expectation",.. and they SEEM to fit, but do so rather "strangely" (being "out of key"). This "delayed gratification" is what makes for more interesting tunes. Also,.. at 6:25 in the video, the symmetry of the E and G# (in the CEG# triangle [inner circle]) means that they have the same interval between themselves and the C (tonic), which we "pick up on" (subtly sense) as them being "related by some strange characteristic". 😊🤙🏄☘
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i have been watching your videos and i am still confused. as someone who has been playing guitar poorly for 15 years, i am trying to find ways to understand music theory. i like how you are trying to teach music theory but i feel like i need more explanation. do you offer private tutoring?
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I've just started learning this stuff. The 6th note in the G major scale (G,A,B,C,D,E,F#) is E. To create the major scale you use the pattern, Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half. Whole means you move up two notes. Half means you move up 1 note. So, we move from G to A because that's a whole step; we skip the note G#. We move from A to B because in the pattern we're supposed to move a whole step; we skip A#. From B we move a half step, or only one note. It just so happens that B and C are only a half step away from each other, so the next note in the scale is C. And so on to form the G major scale. F# is two notes from E (E-F-F#). Then we're back to G because the pattern says we move half a step (F#-G). The minor scale has a different pattern: Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole. The E minor scale using that pattern for minors yields the notes (E,F#,G,A,B,C,D). You'll notice that E minor has the exact same notes as G major; it just starts on E instead of G. Since they have the exact same notes they are called relatives of each other. So E minor is the relative minor of G major. It so happens that any scale you use, the 6th note of that scale will be the relative minor; the minor scale for that 6th note will always have the exact same notes as the major scale. Pretty cool pattern. So, the root, tonic, one chord (whatever you want to call it) is major and the 6th chord is its relative minor. I have not heard about it discussed as chords, only as keys, but that gives you the background on the ways the keys are related and that should clarify why the chords would be relatives of each other.