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What are some songs that have chord progressions using popular modal interchanges?
- Mad World by Gary Jules.
- Space Oddity by David Bowie (this plays diatonic IV chord before the borrowed iv chord which is very common, too)
- Across the Universe by the Beatles (along with a bunch of their songs)
What is modal interchange in music?
A borrowed chord (also called mode mixture, modal mixture, substituted chord, modal interchange, or mutation) is a chord borrowed from the parallel key (minor or major scale with the same tonic).
What is modal exchange?
Modal interchange, sometimes called modal mixture, is a guitar technique through which you combine chords from parallel scales. A parallel scale is any scale that starts on the same pitch. ... Because the tonic pitch remains the same with modal interchange, it isn't considered a key change.
What is modal interchange key?
To put it simple, modal interchange is the practice of temporarily borrowing chords from a parallel tonality/modality without abandoning the established key. This technique has been around for centuries and is well established in most genres, including rock, pop, jazz and classical music.
