A handy guide for using borrowed chords in parallel scales and modes, to make your chord progressions more refreshing and unpredictable.
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How Secondary Dominants Can Make Your Chord Progressions Less Boring
It’s not hard to break out of predictable chord patterns with a new mindset on harmony, and a bit of easy help from secondary dominants, too.
How to Make Chords from Scales
Learning to read or write music? Here’s a quick guide to making chords within the various scales and modes you might encounter in music theory.
How Do Key Signatures Work?
Learning to read or write music? Here’s a quick-yet-deep primer on how key signatures work across major, minor, modal, blues and other tonalities.
Music for Practicing Scales and Modes
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Quick Tracks Nº 8: Change the Tonality of a Popular Song
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Quick Tracks Nº 4: Write a Groove Using the Lydian Mode
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20 Creative Songwriting and Composing Prompts Courtesy of ‘Every Song Ever’
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What Happens When You Mess with the Keys of Iconic Movie Theme Songs?
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