I don't like simplifying the vast and wonderful world that is music theory. I encourage you to kind of delve deep deep deep into it and learn as much as you can and then learn a little bit more as well. But I thought to kind of give you guys a teaser, a taster of just some of the things that are possible, I wanted to give you one simple trick.
I hate saying it as well but one simple trick, just a little thing that you can use in your progressions now to kind of bring them up a level, give you some of that secret sauce. This is the stuff that's used by myself i don't know why i'm blotching myself in with these guys but fundercat kate fernanda tyler the creator all of these guys are using incredible chords right now in some of their songs you're going to see this type of technique i wanted to show you guys this break it down a little bit so you can start using it straight away let's get into it so the secret that i wanted to show you guys for its technical term is going to be modal interchange the idea behind modal interchange is that you can take a scale in the key that you have and swap out some of those chords in your progression with the parallel scale that starts from the same note. What does that even mean? That's craziness, that's craziness.
It's very technical jargon and even once you understand it the ideas, the possibilities can be a bit overwhelming. Let me show you exactly how I like to use this technique to create fire chord progression straight away without having to leap to crazy, crazy theory, doing math on a chalkboard, that sort of thing. So it looks super simple like this.
I'm going to start with a chord progression, something that we would call a diatonic chord progression. That means that all of the chords I'm about to use are in the key. At the moment I'm going to play something that's going to be in the key of G minor.
G minor looks like this. I'm going to use chords that only come from that scale. So I'm going to start with my G minor. In fact, I'm going to start with my C minor. Okay, and you can see here I'm playing a fancy inversion, but let's not worry about that.
That's for afterwards, after you're learning all the other stuff. But the next chord I want to play is an E flat major. In fact, before that, I want to play a D minor as well.
So I'll play. And then I'll end it off on the one R G minor. Now, the thing you can do with this that's super awesome is really you can take any of these chords, but something that Kate Renard loves to do, a lot of Tyler creators, other stuff is taking the last chord that we're landing on.
and switching up its tonality from either a major to a minor or vice versa. So in this particular case, what I'm going to do is I'm going to swap the minor chord that we're playing at the end for a major. And it's going to sound like this.
Now if you were to ask someone from the technicals perspective, technically we've taken this major chord from the parallel G major scale which starts on the G and sounds like this. So it's using slightly different notes, mainly that Ab flat being raised to the B. But the sound of it is the thing that's super powerful. You might have already clocked But this is already a ktron artist song let me sing it for you guys mind i haven't warmed up the vocals yet Don't worry about the tag, don't throw it in the bag, cause I got it there.
So a really, really easy technique to straight away just jazz up your progressions, give them a little bit more life. Let's do that with one more implementation. This time I'm going to take one that I haven't even tried before, so you can see the process of me working through, finding some chord progressions that I don't like, and then finding some ones that I do, and I'm like, okay, I'll take it in that way as well. Let's say for this particular example I'll go key A minor, something I'm quite comfortable with.
I'll go... um okay so we're gonna go our fifth is here so we're gonna go six major six Let's try switching up the tonality of the F. My goodness, tell me that ain't crazy!
So, so powerful. So all you can see, all the way, the only way I applied that technique is to take my regular chord progression which is a 6, 4, 1 in the key of A minor and I just experimented with the idea of switching up the tonality of my very, very first chord. So it looks like this. Again, don't worry about the fancy inversions or the notes.
All we're looking at here is an F minor 7 and I added a 9th on the top. Back to our regular D minor. Back to our 1. And in future videos, we can talk about what that potentially means playing this F, which means we're...
technically in a different key so we can be start doing all this but let's not get too crazy right now that's that one one secret little thing that i wanted to show you guys let me one more time to show this progression it's fine sounds lovely The jazz room we get it from here right here check it out That's just a little taster one part of how we can use modal interchange to create some crazy crazy chord progressions there's obviously so many many ways but i don't want to get bogged down with too much of the nitty-gritty right now at this particular stage what i would recommend for you guys is if you're interested in learning more music theory i've got an entire course on it that you can kind of check out which goes in depth on all of this stuff as well as way way more so you can learn absolutely everything you need to create killer chord progressions that's available on my store or what i would actually recommend is check out the community you're going to find my music theory course as well as alternative r&b production advanced and beginner as well as all of my other courses so you could catch any single one of them at any time learn in your own pace and the best part is you also get access to calls with me so if you get stuck at any point with this particular stuff you can just dial in a call with me We can talk it through and I'd be able to give you a lesson to get you unstuck and get you moving along again. That's one of my favorite parts about this community. I feel like the courses just by themselves.
They're great. They work. But oftentimes you can get stuck with no way to help.
So that's what I was really trying to fix with that particular thing. If you're interested in that, check that out. That would be the first link in the description. I'm going to try and do some more of these. Let me know if you like.
I wanted to try and keep it bite size and simple. I appreciate you guys. I love you guys.
I will catch you in the next one. But for now. Peace out.