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Spicing Up Your SUBMEDIANT CHORDS | How To Make Your vi Chords More Interesting

submediant vi chord Oct 18, 2022

Spicing Up Your SUBMEDIANT CHORDS | How To Make Your vi Chords More Interesting

The submediant (or minor vi) chord is the most utilized minor chord in major keys. It's a part of the over-used I-V-vi-IV chord progression and, if there's only one minor chord in a song, this is likely it. 

So, how do we make our vi chords more interesting in our songs? When songwriting, how can we get some different sounds from our submediant chords? Let's talk about it!

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