Secondary Dominant Chords - Music Theory Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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Okay, what are Secondary Dominants? Basically we’re using chords from an other key to kinda “Spice Up” our chord progressions.
Check out this diagram. I ii iii IV V vi viio I. Here we can see all the chords in a major key. As you may or may not know, the V chord (This guy right here) has a strong pull to the I chord. We call this V chord the “Dominant” chord. (If you want to know more about this, check out my video on functional harmony)
Now let’s add in some lead sheet symbols. We know this G wants to go to C. Now forget that. Let’s plug the key go G into this diagram. Here we can see that the V chord is a D. So the D chord is the dominant chord int he key of G and there for wants to go to the I chord, G.
Now back to the key of C major. Let’s make a chord progression in this key. We’ll go C, F, G C. I IV V I Check it out.
How let’s take that G chord and put the V chord in the key of G before the G chord. Now we have C, F, D, G, C. So this is kinda crazy because now we are playing a D major chord in the key of C, and there’s no D major in C. But, D is the V chord in the key of G. And in our progression that D chord is going straight to the G. So listen to how it sounds now.
Pretty cool right. That’s basically what a secondary dominant is. We put a dominant chord from an other key , or a secondary key, into our progression. We call this a V of V. Because it’s the V chords of the V chord.
Now let’s take it a step further, you can play a secondary dominant before any chord. Let’s make a new chord progressions just using chords in the key of C. C, Am, G, C. Or I vi V I Now, let’s look at that Am, the minor vi. In the key of Am the V chord is E. So we can put that E amor chord int he progression right before the Am. Now we have C, E, Am, G, C.
Seeing as how Am is the minor vi in the key of C we would call E V of vi. So you can have a V of whatever you want. [Show, V/ii V/IV V/vii] Check this out. C E Am B Em F D G C.
Granted, that’s a bit over the top. But you get the idea of how it works.
Before we go here’s a few more quick notes on secondary dominates, all of these V chords can be V7s. So in out C F D G C example, the D could be a D7, which sounds really cool. Also, the same works in minor keys. {Show i bio bIII iv V bVI bVII i with lead sheets] Like the V/bVII would be F here for example.
Let me know if you have any question about all this. It can be a lot to take in, this had to be explained to be multiple time when I was younger before I was able to fully grasp the concept. That being said, a friend of mine over at Orcastra Studio has a good video on this same topic and so does Signals Music Studio. It’s always good to get multiple views on these concepts, so please go check their videos out too. I have links in the description!
Thanks for watching!!
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I love how the music plays the chords you're talking about in the background, even when you're not playing the examples directly!
Thank you! Took a page out of film scoring, trying to be fancy 😂😂
bro my professor had so much trouble explaining this to me and now i actually get it LMAO. Thank you much love.
There's a ton of ways to explain it. Some description stick with some people better. Glad I was able to help! Best of luck with your music studies.
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Wowww, i hope this explanation help me for my analysis homework, i don't understand it when my teacher was explaining it. Now i kinda understand how it work....the issue is: how can i know when to put a roman number?? :'v i really don't understand that part.
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I love how subtle the background piano is and how it helps illustrate what you're trying to teach! I really love that approach of demonstration
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I got so confused about secondary dominants that I gave up on music studies in my music theory class. Didn't understand them until about a year ago. If I would have had seen this video back when I was still in college my mind would not have been so wrapped up. Outstanding explanation. Well done!
so basically you're switching the V to another V of whatever key that you're in. GOT IT! thank you!
summed up weeks of university lessons in literally a 5 minute video, thank you!
Finally, it clicks! And with such a simple and straight forward explanation and example. Than you!
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This may be the most practical/doable music theory insights I’ve seen in YT. Thanks! 👍🏻
This was very nice and INCREDIBLY clear. Also the brevity is very much appreciated
Wow finally found a tutorial thats actually helpful, im not looking for harmony for songwriting or guitar, im just looking for a tutorial about just the music theory so i can compose music for anything, thank you for making this
congrats man, I really enjoy your explanations. I was wondering about this concept since quite some time but I kept getting confused. this explained it really easily and quickly.
I’ve spent all day watching about 10 different videos on RUclips about this and didn’t understand it at all but after watching yours it makes so much sense. Thank you, great vid!!
That's awesome! I'm glad my video was able to help. Haha 🤣
It is taking me long to wrap my mind around secondary dominants as well. The more I read and watch videos like yours, the more interesting it gets. Thank you for your explanation. It helped! God bless you!
What you explained was more than enough to understand
I was so confused for a while, thank you so much!!! 4 years and still great
Yea you said it yourself, I’ve been struggling understanding this concept for about 3 months now, this video has helped me FINALLY understand it
my AP theory teacher tried explaining this to me for like 4 hours and this did it in just under 4 minutes, you are truly a blessing thank you 🙏
Happy to help! It’s good to hear it explained a few ways sometimes.
Hey Ian, thank you so much for creating this video. The fun and upbeat music you provided helped me make more sense of the secondary dominant chords!
Thank you for this video. You stuck with definitions, showed each derivation step clearly, and let us hear chord progressions both with and without the dominant. WHAT, HOW, & WHY. ❤
This video is a masterpiece! The background music makes everything clear and memorable.
Short and to the point. Merci.
I love this video! I was stuck on secondary dominants for a super long time until I found this video. I wish there were more theory explanation videos from this channel.
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Facts! I've read through numerous books and had teachers teach this, just brushing up and reviewing and dang, i've never seen this explained so succinctly.
THANK YOU!!! The best explanation video I found! Keep going with those short music theory vids.
credit to you; i've had to listen to a BUNCH of tutorials on this subject; yours is the first one i've been able to wrap my head around......thx
You did a good job of explaining this in an understandable way.
Precisely what I was looking for today: how to write the functional harmony number of a borrowed chord of another key. Thanks a lot!!
Great explanation, hope you will make more of those musictheory videos.
Ok seriously that was one the best explanations for the secondary dominants thank you!!
Can you post a video including several good sounding progressions that include secondary dominants for beginners?
Very nice and helpful video. Never understood this, even though I play lots of songs that do it. Your explanation along with the graphics and music playing is very very good!
I like this. I was confused about secondary dominant chords, so much so that I decided to just skip them. This gave me simply clarity, thanks for that.
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Thank you so much! I’m glad the music helped show how useful the knowledge can be!
Best of luck to you going forward!!
I liked this style i watched this as a refresher
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Regardless of that, really well explained. Nice one
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This was the explanation that finally got me to understand, tysm
If you ever want to do some more music theory/harmony videos, I think you have a great talent for concise, informative, understandable explanations.
short and easy, loved it! thanks a lot!!!
Thank you so much for explaning this.
I have seen this topic so much on the web and never really got what it actually is,
a really famous passing chord. :-)
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Between borrowed chords, passing chords and possibilities to do key changes,
I struggle sometimes to see what goes where, so we have somewhat of a s y s t e m in
all the theory that is out there.
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I have a final right now and this is honestly the best someone has explained it to me thus far haha, so thank you!
Hahaha glad to help. I hope you do well in finals!! They really stressed me out, can't say I'm a fan.
Thanks! Very clear explanation :)
plz start making more such videos they are greatly helpful. Others say 1-3-5 are tonic but you said only 1 and 3 or something. I need to learn the tonal harmony, the tension of intervals through which chords changes. plz make more videos
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Hahaha, well I'm glad it's helpful nonetheless. 😂
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i agree with all the comments, this explanation is sooooooooo simple, at least for me, compared to others, good job man!
So happy to help!! I really believe music theory is more simple than it's sometimes made out to be.
Great video 👍to the point,nothing wrong with a quick tip to 😺 I actually already know most of this stuff,but u never know ,I learn new stuff constantly 🤘
finally I understood this topic. thank you so so much man!
Happy the video helped!! Best of luck with music theory!
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Watching this before my theory final tomorrow as one last refresher on the topic. I really appreciate your explanation. Thanks so much!
Happy to help. Good luck with your exams!!
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Very good videos and really informative i just want to point out that the E in Amin was from the A harmonic minor scale or melodic minor because in natural minor the V is minor and also in Aminor there is a F not a Fmin. You have a really cool video format i wish you best of luck✌🏾👍🏿👌🏿
Thanks man!
Exactly, the key of a minor does not have E in it why does every damn video that seems to make sense have to end up contradicting what I already know , gives me a friggin headache , it was all making a lot of sense up until that point but now I’m just annoyed , why is it the harmonic minor ?
@@Robfnord Basically, for some reason our brains decipher minor key differently than major key. Our brains can process the style of minor in named separate categories. Natural, harmonic and melodic minor. Yes its a pain in the butt but at least this ain't biology. YOU can use any of the three kinds of minor keys, there is no set rule. He just happened to use harmonic minor for this example.
Yes, thanks for pointing this out. Definitely an Fmaj instead of Fm
Also, naturally it would be an Em, but of course in this example we're finding the V/vii within the Am scale, therefore the Em turns into Emaj
I've just started learning all this and finding your vids super helpful (although when finding a mistake whilst learning can be totally warping) Thanks though!
@Marko markec it could be an indicator if the V is minor or major or anything else for specific scales. For example the major scale has I Major IV Major and V Major, but the mixolydian scale has a I Major IV Major and the V is Minor. If you choose to write a piece or a part in/with mixolydian scale you should know and consider these things. But other than that: music is not a set of rules instead a free choice of artistic interpretation and expression. So you are basically free to combine any chords with each other as long as it sounds good (or even not lol).
You should just learn the concepts and 'rules' of music 'theory' so you can understand, apply and break them afterwards. Hope that helps.
This is a great video!
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Thank you so much!!
Bro, I just checked Wikipedia for what secondary dominant keys were and it may as well have been in Greek. This took 5 minutes to completely understand what it was all about and I heard what it does. Perfect, thank you.
Hahahaha, I'm glad. Theory can be made out to be more complicated than it is I think.
Thank you so much it amazing explanation
Sheesh it's that easy. Thanks man
Thank you!
i listen to the tutorial before this and talk about a college text book with no end. but you took it to a basic understanding that we can use..............thank you.
I'm glad the video was helpful! 😀
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Great simple.Got it
thank you so much this was so quick and easy. gonna tell my music teacher to show this to everyone
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
Really great job.Simple,short and straight to the point. New sub here. And ill def watch ads if any pops up
Haha thanks so much! I try to make these videos as clear and to the point as possible, so I appreciate the comment.
You should edit out the "in Am the V chord is E", because as stands (and as already pointed out by others) the statement is incorrect. No, the v chord (not V) in Am is Em. OR explain the you are "borrowing a chord" from A harmonic minior (in which V = E).
Could you please explain more? Why is the fifth chord from Em to E major ？He didn't explain in the video
I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out how the fifth chord is E and not Em. I have a little knowledge of music theory and it simply skipped my mind that it could be Harmonic minor scale. Your comment helped a lot. Thank you
@@jcq2505 In harmonic minor scale you raise the seventh note by half step. When seventh is raised, the third from note E becomes major third instead of minor third (4 semitones/steps in harmonic minor scale instead of 3 semitones in natural minor scale). Hence in Harmonic minor, the v becomes V. I hope I am able to explain myself. Maybe it is too late to explain and you already know it. But still responded thinking that it may help. Thanks
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I'm glad I could help! Secondary Domaints are a really cool tool to use when writing!
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Hahaha, glad it was helpful 😂