Music Theory Live Class #I

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@brianlarsen

You’re obviously correct, but the only reason I shared it was because Justin had been talking about the the Beatles’ ‘trick’ of playing the iv after the IV, which is what I had accidentally stumbled upon at the end of this bridge.

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Using borrowed chords - introduction + examples

So we progress and arrive at a sixth example. This one is yet another major key progression but, as just alluded to, this example will go on and borrow one of the three minor chords from the parallel minor key. Example 6 A progression in the key of C major. [borrowed 18] Are you ready? Give this a spin. It’s a bouncy little ditty, for sure. Give it some drums and bass and a decent mix and it could get any number of people up out of their seats and dancing. But … it screams at me, demand…

Using borrowed chords - introduction + examples

We look next door at the parallel key of C minor. [Screenshot_130] There are two consecutive bars of F major (the IV) leading back to the tonic chord C major. This next trick has been done a million and one times so why don’t we do it too? We swap the second F major in bar four for a borrowed F minor. Note that the two chords together, F then Fm, are labeled IV then iv. [borrowed 19] Give this one a listen. As soon as you hear it (the minor iv) you’ll know it. Here: There it is. Just…