- How do you find the borrowed chord?
- What chords for each mode?
- How do you identify a modal mixture chord?
How do you find the borrowed chord?
Borrowed chords are chords from a key that's parallel to your song's key signature. So if you're writing in a major key, you could use a chord from its parallel minor. These non-diatonic chords can spruce up a predictable chord progression. Borrowed chords don't appear naturally in a particular song's key.
What chords for each mode?
Each chord within the key has it's own associated mode:
- I chord (D) – Major Key (aka. the “Ionian Mode”)
- ii chord (Em) – Dorian Mode.
- iii chord (F#m) – Phrygian Mode.
- IV chord (G) – Lydian Mode.
- V chord (A) – Mixolydian Mode.
- vi chord (Bm) – Minor Key (aka. the “Aeolian Mode”)
How do you identify a modal mixture chord?
Modal mixture (also called modal borrowing) refers to the use of chords belonging to a parallel key—for example, a passage in F major incorporating one or more chords from F minor. Note that, like with the use of applied chords, this does not necessarily constitute modulation.