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The Bizarre World of Augmented Chords

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The Chord Progression Codex is NOW AVAILABLE! https://shorturl.at/bouLV My pro theory + songwriting course: https://bit.ly/2J2Nctn Enroll in my Rhythm Training Course at ANY price! https://bit.ly/3wDacU4 PDFs+MP3's for this lesson at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40293305/ Augmented chords are awkward, weird, and can seem useless. It took me a while to eventually grasp on what aug chords are capable of- as well as aug7 (or +7) chords. They're certainly a unique sounding chord, and in this lesson we go over the basics behind how the triad is built, but also how it can be used in musical settings. Depending on your knowledge of music theory, this lesson may get too advanced near the end, but it should be simple to follow for the first half at least. Here's how Mike Muggli made the ragtime piano bit: https://youtu.be/TJ_m_6KczlI In this video: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Augmented Triad Basics 02:20 Swapping V for V+ 04:37 Adding Sevenths 05:48 Voice Leading 08:21 Augment Symmetry + Composing 10:54 Lydian Augmented 12:29 MinMaj7 Relationships I made a mistake when walking through my "ragtime piano chords" piece. I accidentally played a B7 (and said V/ii) instead of a B+ (V+ / ii). Hope you'll forgive me! Thanks to my outstanding Patreon subscribers for sponsoring these lessons. If you learned something from this video, your appreciation should go to them. Especially the following fine folks! Adam Granger Billyshes Bradley Bower Brandon Combs BuzzWasHere Christopher Swanson CrippleMonkey Daniel Danciu Darrin Goren Donal Botkin Don Dachenhausen III Don Watters Erik Lange Joe Buote John Arnold jon reddish Kip Ingram Linas Orentas Lord of the Chords Live on Indiegogo Now! Marc Bulandr Marek Pawlowski Markos Zouganelis Martin Michael Galli Morgan M. Nick White Patrick Ryan Philip Sharp Stumann Stephen Marz Tyler Sherkin

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