How to Incorporate Borrowed Guitar Chords Video Lecture - Guitar Become

sometimes in life you find yourself in
places you technically shouldn't be like
in a middle school kickball game so what
do you do you dominate and you take no
prisoners you know who gave me that
advice
it was the dominant seventh chord so
today we're going to learn the musical
version of that encounter and talk a
little bit about an introduction to
borrowing chords from different keys or
adding notes to key you're already
familiar with okay and the reason I take
the e7 chord is because a lot of times
you'll see in the key of C and E seven
and as we talked about in previous
videos which if you don't know how to
like make chords from the major scale
I'll link you to a video because I think
it's super super important I want to
talk about where this e 7 comes from in
the key of secant so if we go over all
the chords in the C major scale we have
C major D minor E minor F major G major
a minor B diminished and C so so that's
third chord that third note CDE is a
minor chord ok so the usual 3 chord
would be e minor if you wanted to extend
that you can make it a minor 7 now a lot
of times like I said in certain songs
maybe you progression like C to G to e7
a minor something like that right so
that seven technically shouldn't be
there there is a g-sharp note in that
cord but one of the reasons it works is
what we're going to talk about today and
we're going to talk about just adding
one single note to the C major scale and
kind of how that affects things so the C
major scale is just all the natural
notes no sharps or flats you guys see in
d e f G a B so if we add a G sharp
thus unlocking the e7 chord it would
look like this see d e f d g sharp a a b
c now the reason that this works has
lost you with the dominant nature of the
e7 chord which again we're going to
apply two different keys later on but
basically we've talked about dominant
chords before and how they exist on the
five chord so NC c d e f g we have a g7
chord and that's something that the
Blues uses a lot a lot of different
genres music pretty much all different
genres of music have dominant seventh
chord in them but one of the most
traditional ways to use a dominant
seventh chord is to set up resolution on
the one chord the tonic as it's called
so really a fair amount of the time
whenever you see a dominant seven chord
the very next chord is going to be the
the root chord of the scale so what I
mean by that is if you see a G dominant
seven chord
a lot of times it's going to be followed
up by a seat at one point so a5 201
again C being 1 D 2 D 3 F 4 g5 that
works in absolutely any key so if you
see like like a D and seven a lot of
times it's going to be where D is five
of what key is that G so on and so forth
eise evan would usually resolve on an a
major chord in the key of a right but
the reason it works in the key of c is
because there's another chord and the
key of C that has a lot of power a lot
of strength a lot of pull in that key
and we're talking about the relative
minor in the key of C which is always on
the six no cdefg a okay so a minor is a
very important chord in the key of C
which you probably already know most
times in the EE who's going to be an a
minor chord somewhere and just like a g7
chord can resolve to a C chord we can
make a dominant chord for the a minor
chord itself and that is going to be
where the e7 comes in right so when you
have the e7 chord go to a minor right
there's a resolution there it might be a
slightly different type of resolution
because we're resolving
and minor but it fits DFC even though
technically that geesh unknown shouldn't
be there so some people call this
borrowing cords where we're borrowing an
e7 chord from the key of a where e7 know
but we're choosing resolving not a minor
chord softly so you can think of seven
as being a chord that technically
doesn't belong in the key of C if we're
just going straight up by like some of
the music theory rules you're talking
about but definitely fits pretty nicely
and that's all because of that a minor
holding down the fort right so if we
actually just take the concept of adding
this G term note to the scale it
actually kind of unlocks and we can
build other chords from that so feel
free to add that G sharp notes maybe
other chords that you already know in
the key of C major and maybe one example
of that that is pretty cool is let's
take the two chord D minor right
if we were to add a g-sharp to this
course to make a D minor keyboard into a
D minor 7 now the fifth note of this is
going to be an egg okay so if we made a
deep hour where we have a DJ now if we
wanted to replace the a with that G
sharp we can get a much darker sound off
the 2 chord all right so if we have
maybe something in a minor
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we're gonna start adding that and then
it definitely brings attention to to the
progression but it's something that is
really workable and it's not the end of
the world and you can really find cool
creative ways to do it in fact you can
even make full new cords and out of that
D and it's flat five like a D minor 7
flat 5 something I really like to do
that a a minor 7 flat 5 quality to the 2
chord and any key into the 1 chord right
and a lot of these will you know resolve
still on the one like the parent chord
of the key in an interesting way and
maybe that's what you're looking for if
you want to improve your own songwriting
techniques or just maybe some add some
chops to playing etc etc so basically
the lesson here is that in any key the 3
chord is a good candidate to maybe turn
into a dominant 7th chord
that'll still resolve either on the one
or on the six the relative minor so
maybe one more example of that let's do
all let's do like the key of F ok so in
the key of F asked is our preferred over
one for G minor is the two chord and a
minor is the 3 chord so let's turn that
a minor into a dominant 7
eight seven cats but it almost would
make more sense to go from a seven to a
D minor which is AB such a relatively
minor one two three four five minor so a
seven so just a few tricks remember the
three chord usually is a minor chord or
minor seven chord if you want to kind of
get crazy explore outside the box trim
it into a dominant seven chord and by
adding that borrowing that from a
different key they're introducing a note
into that scale then maybe you could
work like for example taking the two
chord and turning it from a minor seven
chord into a minor 7 flat 5 chord so
again if some of the stuff is over he
had no problem it took me a while to
really kind of wrap my head around for
building from scales in general but
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