Using Borrowed Chords - Music Composition
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Күн бұрынFind out how to borrow chords from the parallel key as a means of adding colour to your harmony and to understand how composers use this technique. This music composition lesson presents a short piece of harmony and demonstrates ways in which borrowed chords can be injected, covering issues of voice leading, as well as how to prepare for and to resolve the borrowed chords. This video will help you add variety and extra colour to your harmony.
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0:00 - Introduction to using borrowed chords
0:19 - What is a parallel key?
1:57 - How do borrowed chords work?
3:28 - Finding the major chords
5:32 - Finding the minor chords
9:14 - When to use borrowed chords
11:12 - Playing the example piece
11:34 - Working through the example piece
26:48 - Comparison with and without borrowed chords
27:42 - Conclusion
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@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@LouisSerieusement Жыл бұрын
10:34 I always say that theory helps us to put name on specific feelings/color so we can spot them in songs and re-use them whenever we want more easily. It is really helpful
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@jayducharme Жыл бұрын
I love the sound of your example. Borrowed chords are now my new favorite thing!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Go for it!
@carlstenger5893 Жыл бұрын
Delightful video. Adding color to a seemingly "okay" piece brings a special kind of joy that's hard to beat. First, you get to surprise the performers during practice. Then, they get to surprise the audience at the performance. It's a win / win.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@philipkudrna5643 Жыл бұрын
Glad you mentioned the augmented second in the alto. I feel, in a choir the alto usually has the hardest job, as their melodic lines are usually full of such exotic intervals that sound weird on their own. Also tenors can be „blessed“ with this, while usually voice Leasings of bass and soprano are „easy listening“ and free from strange jumps or melodic lines.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@carolynbrightfield8911 Жыл бұрын
Yes, agreed.
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@lornapenn-chester6867 Жыл бұрын
Working my way through all I’ve been missing! Another great lesson, thank you! 😊
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure
@yinwong858 Жыл бұрын
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@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@frankdelong4377 Жыл бұрын
A wonderful insight. Thank you!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@SIQN- Жыл бұрын
Always insightful and enjoyable. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.
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@StratsRUs Жыл бұрын
Superb ! And then some. Thank you
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@zandernoriega Жыл бұрын
Masterfully explained. Thanks!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@ilninfeo Жыл бұрын
Fantastic and very useful lesson! Thank you, dear Gareth!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure
@lawrencetaylor4101 10 ай бұрын
Merci for this, even though I'm not ready to compose, I feel that I will have a good preparation with your videos.
@MusicMattersGB 10 ай бұрын
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@tayewo 23 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for all your teachings.
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@brittenmusic6923 Жыл бұрын
Excellent!
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@timosdl8660 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Thank you!
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@mymatemartin Жыл бұрын
This was a great tutorial. Really explains a lot and for me, provided clarity on things I could sense but not quite understand before.
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@PaulTame-iu2py 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for this clear analysis.
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@Camaleonte Жыл бұрын
Excellent exploration, Gareth. Thanks. The borrowed chords change the piece from sounding like a hymn to a bona fide classical piece
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@rebanelson607 Жыл бұрын
I learned so much from this - Thanks!
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@fortissimoX Жыл бұрын
Great lesson, thanks!
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@PapitaPure Жыл бұрын
These are the kind of chords that give me goosebumps the most.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
They’re great
@newnewchannel Жыл бұрын
I love your theory lesson so much Mr. Matters. Thank you!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@basslobster Жыл бұрын
Great as always. Appreciate your effort on this subject. Greetings from 🇸🇪😀
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@patrikmill164 10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
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@christopherlord3441 Жыл бұрын
Very well-thought-out and well-executed piece of instruction. I believe that a more extreme version of this idea is found in blues and also in flamenco: what I call 'paradoxical harmony'. The scales used for the parallel harmony are not diatonic. In Blues, a major or possibly mixolydian harmony coexists with a pentatonic minor on the same root, which is directly discordant, and in flamenco the phrygian harmony of the 'andalusian cadence' coexists with a kind of chromatic diminished harmony which uses the flat 5 as a harmony note: again, just about as discordant as possible. Keep up the good work.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Useful extended thought.
@desoconnor7445 Жыл бұрын
It’s been a while ..you look really well and this tutorial really cleared a mystery for me in relation to borrowed chords..thanks 🎵👍
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@marcelvdberg4140 Жыл бұрын
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@bellygunnermusic Жыл бұрын
much love you genius.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@Mario-xr3jo Жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thank you!
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@Mario-xr3jo Жыл бұрын
@@MusicMattersGB Thank you for your kind invitation. I have visited your website and watched a few sample lessons. Very interesting. However, I think I am a bit too old for regular education now. Besides, I had some musical education (including piano playing) in my teen years, and some aspects you discuss are familiar to me. Since then I have mainly played by ear. Anyway, It's always pleasure to listen to you. Best regards.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
That’s most kind. Lovely to hear from you. Enjoy your music
@SebastianAmmerlynd Жыл бұрын
Great to point out the nomenclature! In German, the "parallel" to C major would actually be A minor. C minor would be the "variant" key to C major in German.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
I love the way that terminology confuses the world!
@sychg3448 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@sayonara6301 Жыл бұрын
Very well explained. Pls do other parallel chords like mixolydian etc
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Okay
@m.dsamuel6278 Жыл бұрын
Nice one
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Glad it’s useful
@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Жыл бұрын
dude you’re a genius . so advanced kind of reminds me of the hollys. “all that i need is the air that i breathe.” .. possibly “here there and everywhere” by the beatles . not sure if it could be an example.,. im going to do some experiments 👍🏻
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
You’re most kind
@bettyennin6335 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a detailed tutorial as usual. You're always a blessing!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
You’re very kind
@martinbennett2228 Жыл бұрын
In bar 6 the expectation is a cadence, but you go to a doubly unexpected chord. Given last week's video on the augmented (German) sixth, it would be interesting to see a full treatment of chords that can follow the notes in a dominant 7th (I suspect that you might have one or two surprises up your sleeve). Thanks again.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
We can cover that. Thanks for your support.
@smkh2890 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! G Melodic minor would have two flats AND the f sharp from the major!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@philipkudrna5643 Жыл бұрын
Using the flat 6 (or a minor 4 chord) is actually a classic stylistic choice for a „half ending“ or „fake ending“ in modern pop Music, especially in the 80ies and 90ies (e.g. Brian Adams: everything I do on „I’d die for you…!“ or Oasis in „don’t look back in anger“). The major 4 - minor 4 transition was also used in the verse of „up where we belong“.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@philipkudrna5643 Жыл бұрын
The borrowed 6 chord is also a „classic“ stylistic element. In „Phantom of the opera“, the chords and base go to and fro between Chord 1 and chromatically down to flat 6 (even though this example is not perfect, as the song is already in a minor key.) A better example that comes to my mind is Whitney Houston’s „One moment in time“, which in the bridge (and before the final modulation) also goes to and fro between Chord 1 and a borrowed flat 6 major chord („You‘re winner for a lifetime“). I like the flat 6 major because it comes as a surprise but is not too exotic and doesn’t lead you too for away and allows you to get back to the original key. It can also be used as a deceptive ending. (I think in the Prayer (dion/Bocelli) it is also used in the very end, but I am not entirely sure about that…)
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@alvodin6197 Жыл бұрын
I just a course from MM on music composition and so far I'm very happy. Gareth, will you ever do a course on early romantic era or Chopin? I wish!
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Glad you’re enjoying the course. We could do a course on that.
@rjlchristie Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gareth I appreciate the series. Now, for some "just resting in my bank account" chords. if you please.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@JustRockMySoul Жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation, one suggestion though: You could add a segment without commentary at the end where you only repeat the chords and the changes without talking. That way it would be easier to focus on the intervals.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Fair point
@bitegoatie Жыл бұрын
The dominant chord is the same in the parallel scale only if one uses the so-called “harmonic” minor (in the 8:20-8:30 range you drop that specification). You simply change the minor chord to a major chord in the second-most important chord in the minor scale - which has always seemed to me silly if it’s going to be used as a matter of routine. Just as an aside, I have never liked this bit of nomenclature, nor the business of calling the doubly altered minor scale “melodic”. We can use altered tones for all sorts of reasons, and that’s all fine. Making these particular alterations common practice undercuts the familiarity of minor keys and distorts the way we discuss minor keys. But that’s just me. You have done well describing the common practices.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
You’re right that I’m discussing common practice from 1600 but there are other options
@LohPro Жыл бұрын
is there a video that you have where you talk about knowing what to use, to achieve a certain "color" or "mood"? how do you know which note or chord to use, in a specific moment, that will allow a certain "feel' to be conveyed? i know about Major-> minor perhaps sounding "happy-> sad", but there are so many other emotions out there, how do you go about choosing different notes or chords to help achieve a required sound?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
We will add that to the list
@simongross3122 Жыл бұрын
Very nice and interesting, thank you. I wonder, is it possible to borrow chords from something other than the parallel key? Or would this require an actual modulation to elsewhere?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Anything is possible if it sounds good.
@igorperic5232 Жыл бұрын
Hey :) Could you explain in a video the difference between 3/8, 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 ? :) It confuses me a lot...
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@suedemutant8196 Жыл бұрын
If you stick to natural g minor parallel you have some extra clean major chords in G to play around with. As Bb, Eb and F. Might come in handy for some Beatles tunes. But that's not the topic of this video, just a sidenote ☺️
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@bettyennin6335 Жыл бұрын
Concerning borrowed chords, as in everything less is more. Too many borrowed chords in succession will indeed defeat the purpose of adding color and end up being more of confusion.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@mtaur4113 Жыл бұрын
Thumbnail Gareth looking at us like we borrowed that chord a week ago, and are we gonna give it back to him no worse for wear any time soon or what?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@mtaur4113 Жыл бұрын
I felt like the borrowing was a lighter touch in m1-4, and it was a little abruptly dark and underprepared in m5-8. It could work fine with more context, but it felt sudden to me, all things considered.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. It’s making the point that borrowing chords can be subtle or more dramatic.
@TomBlakeOfficial Жыл бұрын
I assume this is mostly used in film-, and classical music?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Not necessarily
@bellygunnermusic Жыл бұрын
in the harmonic minor the 6 chord could be major or minor. is there a vocabulary for this? Eb G Bb or Eb Gb Bb. this is what's confusing about harmonic minor. you have two options for the quality of the 6 chord. and some tunes use both.......is there a term for this phenomenon?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
In the harmonic minor VI is always a major chord. In the melodic minor it would be diminished in relation to the rising scale and major in relation to the descending scale.
@annonymeandfish Жыл бұрын
I feel like statements in the order of « Am is the relative tonality of C major BECAUSE they share the same key signature » are missing the point.
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Not really as every major key has a relative minor key and that relationship often plays out in pieces.
@kierenmoore3236 Жыл бұрын
The Minor Plagal Cadence is lovely … the only problem with it now is that Radiohead’s lawyers think they invented/own it … 😉 lol
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@Eric-os9wg 5 ай бұрын
When you slightly key word there slightly Pitch bend one little note and think you just made a whole new Melody lol
@MusicMattersGB 5 ай бұрын
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@patrickcunningham618 Жыл бұрын
many many mille graze High is the queen Long live King Charles III :)
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@ich-nuta Жыл бұрын
I can hear a little Nicki Minaj influence in the voice leading
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Excellent
@ich-nuta Жыл бұрын
@@MusicMattersGB I was kidding! Video and instruction is of great quality as usual, I'm already familiar with the topic so skimmed through:)
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
I realise you were kidding. Thanks for the positive feedback
@leeow3n Жыл бұрын
you can call them borrowed chords, but we all know you don't plan on returning them...
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@potapow8684 Жыл бұрын
Why can't you just invent your own chords instead of borrowing them?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Feel free to invent. If it sounds good use it.
@rozzgrey801 Жыл бұрын
So it's OK to borrow chords just as long as you pay them back with interest?
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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