A chord that isn’t in the key isn’t always a modulation. There are many chords that you will come across in songs that music theory does not describe as a modulation.
In this video I talk a bit about some of those progressions of chords. Show an example of something that is a modulation and a few progressions that are not modulations but still contain chords that are not found in the scale.
The way I view music theory is that it is a description of the music that I play that helps me understand and hear what is going on. In most genres of music you will find a lot of chords that are maybe not diatonic to the scale but are still in the key. Examples of this are found as secondary dominants, modal interchange or borrowed chords from the parallel key.
Content of the video
0:00 Intro and a bit of heated discussion
1:09 Diatonic Chords
1:37 Modulation or not?
2:00 Progressions with non diatonic chord in the key
2:39 A progression that modulates
3:26 What can you come across? Secondary dominants
4:06 Modal Interchange/Borrowing from minor
4:25 Overview of the 21 chords in C minor.
4:55 Song examples with borrowed chords
5:25 My favorite chord and a little solo with it!
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