Tagged with 'Modal Interchange'
Improvising Over Modal Interchange Chords
Improvisation over Modal Interchange chords. This blog is a continuation from last week’s blog on modal interchange. Check that blog here if you need a review on modal interchange chords: Modal Interchange Chords in Major Keys. This week I wanted to talk about the scales of choice for improvisation over modal interchange chords. In recap,
Read More »
Modal Interchange Chords in Major
Beef Up Your Chord Progressions With Modal Interchange Chords “Modal Interchange” is a harmonic technique in which you borrow chords from parallel scales. This allows you to add new harmonic colors in addition to the 7 chords of the key you are writing in. Parallel scales are: scales that start on the same root. Examples:
Read More »
Things Every Songwriter Should Know
The process of writing songs gets more fun the better you get at it. The more you know about harmony, melody and song form, the better your songs will get. That knowledge also makes the song writing process much more effective, and hence less tedious. The feeling you get after you wrote a new song
Read More »
Posted in Harmony/Chords, Song-Writing Tagged Chords | - Part 3 Los Angeles Guitar Lessons by Vreny Van Elslande, Constant structure, drone, harmony, line cliche, Modal Interchange, Music Theory | Los Angeles Guitar Lessons by Vreny Van Elslande, Open tunings, Ostinato, pedalboard, Secondary Dominants, songwriting, Tritone Substitution V7’s. Dim 7th chords