Non-Diatonic Chords
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Strict diatonic note and chord selection provides a gigantic amount of possibility for song-writing and solo'ing; however, it still places us inside a box that we occasionally want to escape. The simplest way to do this is to borrow chords or notes from other scales/keys.
Contents
PreReqs
- Music Theory Basics
- Music Theory - Diatonic Chord Progressions
- Music Theory - Minor Keys
- Harmonic Minor and Augmented Chords
- Circle of Fifths
- 7th Chords
V/V
The most common borrowed chord is the V or V7 of V chord. It is essentially a dominant function chord whose function is to resolve to the dominant chord of the current key.