After publishing my latest free arrangement of “Christ Arose” last week, several of you asked for me to discuss it in a video so here it is. I wrote the arrangement in just a few minutes and I don’t consider it to be the best thing I have ever done. The one thing I consciously did while […]
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People often ask when they should use secondary dominants in their music. The short answer is this: when it sounds good. But let’s talk a little more about it. Here is the simple rule: any time you play a minor 7th, you can change it to a secondary dominant by raising the third of the […]
As we continue to work through “Trust and Obey”, I need to take a lesson to explain one particular chord in the song. It occurs in measure 19 and is labeled as a VI7 (dominant VI chord). Before I start talking about this particular chord, I want to point out that the chord progressions in […]