Substitute Borrowed and Pivot Chords: What's the deal?

Substitute chords. Borrowed chords. Pivot chords. These aren't TYPES of chords, they are explanations for how and when we use them.

Knowing how chords can be used outside of their primary function in music can be valuable, but it can also be confusing initially, especially if you don't already know how chords function primarily.

In this video I outline these basic use cases for how, and why we might do these things with chords...

Substitute
Borrow
Pivot

00:00 Thesis
00:26 Introduction
02:38 Lesson
08:00 Wrap Up

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