Music Theory Monday | 10: Dominant Chords (So Important!)
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Hi Everyone!
If you're reading this, it means I'm on the road headed for Michigan, where I'll be hanging out for a few weeks. I filmed a handful of these MTM lessons (and others) to make sure I have some good stuff for you to practice and think about while I'm on the five day journey. I'm also bringing gear to film lessons while I'm out there, so you may see a change of scenery in a few upcoming videos.
I had intended to release a lesson about Mixolydian Mode today, but I think this lesson will be awesome to watch beforehand. It may clear up some confusion about how dominant 7 chord can function AND give you some fun things to play around with before next weeks MTM kind of throws a wrench in the whole concept of Dominant 7 chords.
As always, thanks so much for being here and I hope you learn a lot while you're here.
In case I didn't mention this in the lesson, feel free to play around with some dom7 chord progressions and post them on the community forum post!
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Nancy T. Carnahan
2024-09-20 16:46:21 +0000 UTCCorrect! V of vi is kind of its origin story, but we don't have to use it that way anymore. Music theory is a lot more of history of origin stories than a set of rules.
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-07-31 18:56:55 +0000 UTCIn minor triads practice 2 one line of the progression is E F Dm Dm. Here the E (v of vi) doesn't resolve to vi, nor is the F a secondary dominant. So the secondary dominant doesn't always have to resolve to what its the V of?
paul m
2022-07-31 18:12:39 +0000 UTCHi Magela - Pretty much all the Music Theory Monday lessons up to this point are all about chords that fit in a key together. Grabbing a few of those chords-in-a-key and playing them with a strumming pattern results in a chord progression! It's possible I wasn't clear enough about that in these lessons, so feel free to ask more questions and I'll do my best to clear them up! OR, find my latest Office Hours post and ask some questions there. There are no dumb questions here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/office-hours-58-56817751
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-10-04 14:57:29 +0000 UTCIn this video you mention another video that talks about chord progressions, which one is it ? I cant find it...
Magela Crosignani
2021-10-01 18:17:23 +0000 UTCSo, thanks!! Haha
Andrew Klein
2021-05-03 13:20:04 +0000 UTCI know this was posted forever ago, but great great lesson! I’ve just gotten to it after moving past the modes stuff. This one felt *so important* (and really connected with the MTFG lessons, I thought)
Andrew Klein
2021-05-03 13:16:55 +0000 UTCI'd memorize the shape of root fifth on guitar ala intervals - have you done the Music Theory for Guitar series?
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-03-29 20:02:56 +0000 UTCGood lesson! Are there any mnemonic devices or patterns that you know of to make it easier to have these down? Or is it one of those things you just have to practice to make it sink in? I figure if I have the print out of the notes I can make this work but I'd have trouble doing this independently (as of now). Thanks !
Mr K
2021-03-29 16:04:05 +0000 UTCThey zoom in your face with a strange expression when you played the wrong scale. They are cool! 👍🏻
DeDé
2021-02-28 22:11:20 +0000 UTCWhat do you mean!? Haha
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-02-26 21:04:39 +0000 UTCYou should slap your editor in the face. He/she is playing with you sometimes. 😅 They are probably bored!
DeDé
2021-02-25 22:09:36 +0000 UTCHaha. I figured that out at some point and have changed my ways
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-12-19 16:11:58 +0000 UTCYour guitar is twisted because every time you pick it up and set it back onto the stand the guitar does a complete rotation. Old school desk phone with handset scenario.
Joe Fodor
2020-12-19 15:33:51 +0000 UTCCheck out my Music theory Monday lesson called “dominant chords: so important”
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-11-27 06:08:31 +0000 UTCFantastic lesson as always but I may have missed something early on. When you say five of five or five of two etc, I realize this is indicating what it will resolve to but how do I determine if it's five of five or three or two or even one? If this is in a previous lesson please point me in that direction. As always, thank you!
Daniel Ankrom
2020-11-26 22:03:01 +0000 UTCRoger Miller is great. He did a lot of goofy tunes, but wrote some top notch songs that could make your heart hurt.
Ronald Sundquist
2020-10-28 02:03:31 +0000 UTCwell that applies to all lessons -.-
benjamin schermutzki
2020-08-26 10:47:36 +0000 UTCOne of the best lessons
Davide Angeletti
2020-08-25 14:22:18 +0000 UTCAwesome lesson. Loved the circling exercise at the end and absolutely loved the Robin hood Diddy, which was a favorite part of the movie. Thx!
Jesse Grossman
2020-08-25 06:33:44 +0000 UTCGood Lesson answered a few questions I had. First cleared up the issue I was having with G7 as a I chord and G7 as a V chord F# and F, now I know, thank you for clearing that up. Also I found the resolving V interesting, how it gives you a lot of cool options. Robin Hood - Roger Miller he has few fun songs.
Clyde Hinton
2020-08-24 16:48:21 +0000 UTC
