How to Use Secondary Dominant Chords - Music Composition

Many musicians are aware of Secondary Dominant chords but are unsure how to use them in a piece of music. This music composition lesson presents a passage of music in which there are no Secondary Dominants then demonstrates how to rewrite the same piece including three Secondary Dominants. In the course of doing so he demonstrates how to apply them using inversion chords and shows how to replace a Dominant 7th with a Diminished 7th in the Secondary Dominant context. This video will be useful to composers wanting to add harmonic colour to their writing and will assist performers and analysts wanting to identify this device.
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction to how to use secondary dominant chords
1:12 - What is a secondary dominant chord?
6:44 - Explaining the example exercise
8:51 - Playing the two versions
9:44 - Example use of consecutive secondary dominants
14:43 - Diminished seventh chord substitute
17:25 - Conclusion
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