useful knowledge of secondary dominants

[Mark Percy]

secondary dominants are bassicaly the use of a five chord, often written thus, G7 or F7 or any note for that matter, placed elsewhere in the scale of chords.

the major scale of chords goes thus:- major, minor, minor, major, major(V or V7) minor, minor 7th/flat five, major.

the roman numerals are I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII.

so you can stick a secondary dominant on the two-chord, or the six-chord, for starters.

you can actually stick them anywhere.

so you use the dominant shapes of triads, arpeggios, extended arpeggios, to make the chord sounds in thier new places as well as its origional position.

there are minor stacks of chords.

there are also modal stacks too.

go to my free manual for bass, on www.markpercy.com

there you will find tons of useful stuff for free.

cheers, mark.

[Mike]

Cheers - very interesting, will check out your website now.

I guess changing the II chord to a dom7 would give you a nice lydian sound over the maj7 I.

Will explore! Thanks.

[Doddy]

[quote name='Mark Percy' post='904323' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:15 PM']go to my free manual for bass, on www.markpercy.com

there you will find tons of useful stuff for free.

cheers, mark.[/quote]

I hope so,because there is nothing particularly useful here.

[Paul_C]

[Al Heeley]

hmm..