Songwriting is a challenging process, and having a new technique to explore can help inspire new material. Borrowing chords is a cool technique to freshen up any chord progression. It can make your songs sound less predictable, yet still accessible.
Let’s break down how this works.
The chords of a scale
Each key has its own set of chords that ‘sound right’ played together. They’re created using the notes of that key’s scale.
We’ll consider a song in the key of C major. It uses chords created from the notes of…
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