Chord Progression of the Month 3

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Huey Lewis and The News

"The Power of Love"

The middle section of this song will be analyzed this month.

The Intro, Verses and Choruses are in a variety of C Minor Modes.

The Middle shifts into Eb Lydian(Bb) and Eb Major

with secondary dominants (G7/D, G7sus4 and G7) preceding the C minor chords.

Eb is the first chord of this section.It could of been any chord.

Eb helps it to relate to Cm ( the key of the rest of the song ) The relative minor of Eb is Cm.

More ideas like this can be heard from bands like The Rasmus and Hymm.

In chord progression of the month #4 "Purple Rain"

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What's a Secondary Dominant?

Chords like to fall in 5th's.

When a chord is a 5th higher than the next chord

It may become a major chord or a 7 type chord

or a 7 type chord with altered notes

these altered notes (# or b 5ths and/or 9ths) may be derived from the key you are in.

Gm7 is a 5th higher than Cm

so it may become G G7 G7sus4 G7b5 G7+ G7b9 G7#9 etc etc etc

that is why G7/D and G7sus4 appear in the progression above

they were Gm7's originally.

"Sultans of Swing" has a memorable one.

Probably chord progression of the month #5