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I like it! but I really wish this would allow you to borrow chords from other keys or modes. Even a song as simple as "The House of the Rising Sun" (which The A
by rntz 10y ago
I like it! but I really wish this would allow you to borrow chords from other keys or modes. Even a song as simple as "The House of the Rising Sun" (which The Animals famously arpeggiated) borrows chords - it's in A minor but uses a D major chord, which you can think of as borrowed from the parallel major.
- armandososa 10y agoIs that case not covered by switching the scale modes?
- rntz 10y agoNo, not unless you can fortuitously find a mode that has exactly the chords you need. But for some progressions there is no such mode. I believe "House of the Rising Sun" has such a progression, but I haven't exhaustively checked.
- hunter2_ 10y agothe A melodic minor scale contains a D major chord. haven't checked if it has every chord in the song though. many songs do have the issue you describe though, even a simple modulation to lift the last chorus, for example.
- rntz 10y agoA melodic minor lacks C major, and instead has C augmented.