PASSING FANCY
Aug 13, 2019
3 minutes
by Jimmy Brown
CONTINUING OUR EXPLORATION of the augmented chord, which, as you recall, is a major triad with a raised, or “sharped,” fifth — 1, 3, #5 — I’d like to revisit a topic that we covered way back in the February 2018 installment of String Theory, which is how songwriters have employed this painfully sweet entity as a passing chord within what many musicians refer to as the “minor drop progression.”
As a quick
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