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6.11
Examples: Chord Maps of Great Songs without Modulation, with Chromatic
Chords
6.11.1
Group 2: List of Great Songs
without Modulation, with Chromatic Chords
A chromatic chord—a chord whose root lies outside the harmonic scale for the key of the song—introduces harmonic variety that attracts your brain’s attention.
Chord maps of the following classic songs, all selected from the GSSL, will show you how great songwriters make use of chromatic chords:
- “Hey Jude”
- “Carefree Highway”
- “Wild Horses”
- “September Song”
- “Crazy”
- “Trouble In Mind”
- “Sundown”
- “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
- “Bridge Over Troubled Water”