Chord Progression Analysis Part 1 Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl31st August 2008
  Beautiful and atmospheric - thanks Alejandro!
- Nazgul31st August 2008
  Useful as always. Very well done.
- Emir Hot31st August 2008
  Very nice melody and structure. Great clean tone as well
- Kuba Szafran31st August 2008
  Great lesson, lots of nice chords .
- Ivan Milenkovic31st August 2008
  SOunds beautiful man, will check out the chords
- Daniel Robinson31st August 2008
  Awesome lesson man, had such a Kristopher Cross vibe too it, love it
- Carlos Carrillo31st August 2008
  A brilliant atmosphere .. a lesson with good results!!
  
  Am I thinking about listening to something of bossanova? great job Alejandro!!
- Alejandro Pinero31st August 2008
  thanks all for the comments!!
- Gabriel Leopardi31st August 2008
  Great composition Ale. and very interesting chords theory behind it.
- JuanMV31st August 2008
  This is great and beautiful Alejandro... I will definitely give it a shot.
- Bogdan Radovic31st August 2008
  Beautiful chords Alejandro!
- Lian Gerbino31st August 2008
  nice
- Hisham Al-Sanea1st September 2008
  wonderful Aljhandro. nice compenation
- Alejandro Pinero1st September 2008
  thanks I appreciate the comments!!
- Nighthawk11st September 2008
  Very beautiful progression, and good explanations of the theoretical backgrounds...I will use this for my own progressions and to be free to go outside the key
- Joe Kataldo1st September 2008
  Nice topic to explore and nice song too
- Juan M. Valero1st September 2008
  cool lesson, thanks mate !!
- Alejandro Pinero1st September 2008
  thanks guys!! realy!
- kebsis2nd September 2008
  He got out his sunburst guitar so you know hes going to be bustin out clean licks!
- Alex872nd September 2008
  Beautiful Alejandro - And your tone is always awesome!!
- Alejandro Pinero2nd September 2008
  thank all!!
- Danilo Capezzuto2nd September 2008
  Awesome , smart and useful! One of the best lessons on the site!

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- Tags: Chord progression, Substitutions, Modal interchange, Composition, Theory, Fingerpicking
  Use of secondary 7th chord and modal exchange. The idea is to not think just in one key at the moment of the composition, but to keep an open mind.
Hi GMC! Today we'll talk about the chord progression of a song of my own.

This is the first part of the song, in the second part we can listen to the complete song. In this song I use secondary 7th chord and modal exchange.

The intro is in A major key and begin with F#m7, the VI Chord of the A Major Key. Then the other chord is B7. The secondary dominant of E (Vº of the A major key), but this chord is not major because this chord come from the Am key. This is a modal exchange, like the next chord; G major. This chord comes from the Am key too, and the last one is A major.

The idea is not to think just in one key at the moment of the composition. It’s interesting to use for example chords of the same key but in minor mode.

The verse begins with a II, V, I progression on E major key, the next chord is A major, D major from a exchange modal from E minor (same key but minor), then D minor, C#m7 (VI º from E major), the last one is C#7 (secondary dominant).

Now, at this verse, F#m7, B7, Emaj7, Amaj7 and Dmaj7are repeat but the end is change. Here appears G#7. This chord is the secondary dominant of C#m7.

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