Harmony is all about tension and release. When we arrive on a tonic chord after a long time hearing dominant chords, we feel a sense of relief. There’s only so much tension you can create with diatonic harmony: these are chords that are only found in the key your song is in. When you include chromatic harmony—chords from outside the key you’re in—you can create even stronger senses of tension and relief and overall just spice up your chord progressions.
Chromatic Harmony teaches you the most common chromatic harmonies and shows the types of feelings they can evoke in listeners. This book uses real musical examples and exercises (with answers), so by the end of the book you’ll be ready to spice up all your chord progressions.
What you’ll know (and how to use them) by the end of the book:
- Secondary (Applied) Chords and Tonicization
- Sequences with Secondary Chords
- Modulation
- Pivot Chord (Common-Chord)
- Common-tone
- Chromatic Pivot Chord
- Sequential
- Direct
- Modal Mixture
- Neapolitan Chords
- Augmented Sixth Chords
Because not everyone comes from a classical background, this book features both MIDI (piano roll) and traditional sheet music examples.
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