Sharing chords in adjacent keys.
I get asked all the time by my students, "That chord is not in the same key as the song. Where did it come from?" With a simplified explanation, I show the student that chords "borrowed" from other keys, usually come from “adjacent” keys that share common chords.
For example, the key of C major and the key of G major shar…
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