{"id":14392,"date":"2016-09-13T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=14392"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:24:18","slug":"suspended-dominant-chords-can-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/suspended-dominant-chords-can-applied\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Dominant Chords And How They Can Be Applied"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s lesson, we’ll be learning about suspended dominant chords and most importantly, how they can be applied.<\/p>\n

Suspended chords are not commonly used like major and minor chords, however, they still have their place in chord progressions and I’ll be showing you all that in this lesson.<\/p>\n

Attention<\/strong>: It is important for me to say that we’ll be dealing specifically with suspended dominant chords – not suspended triads. Keep on reading, even if you don’t know the difference between the two.<\/p>\n

Let’s do a review on dominant chords to prepare you for this lesson.<\/p>\n

“What Are Dominant Chords?”<\/em><\/h2>\n

For a better understanding of the term dominant chord<\/em>, you’ll permit me to explain what the words dominant and chord means.<\/p>\n

A chord is a collection of three or more related notes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The relationship between the notes of a chord (aka – “chord tones<\/a>“) are based on two things – scales and intervals, therefore, it can be said that there are two kinds of relationship between chord tones:<\/p>\n