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Borrowed Chords: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Beautiful Melodies

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0:00 Introduction
1:00 Demonstration
1:53 Basic terms
6:14 What are we borrowing?
7:17 Applications
13:35 The beauty of pedal notes
15:15 Mind the bass!

Borrowed chords are simply chords taken from another scale built on the same root. This might sound like a confusing definition, but I assure you it’s as simple as can get! Join me as I break down these ideas with plenty of demonstrations and applications, including a unique synth-funk demo written specifically for the purpose of this lesson.