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Spicing Up Your TONIC CHORDS | How To Make Your I CHORDS More Interesting

Sep 03, 2022

Spicing Up Your TONIC CHORDS | How To Make Your I CHORDS More Interesting

The tonic chord plays a very important role in your songs. The tonic chord is the most powerful and resolved sounding chord in the context of any song, making it ideal to open and close your song, to open and/or close your chorus and for any other place in your song that you would like to highlight. 

But sometimes you want some of the harmonic benefit from your I chord without it actually sounding super resolved. Sometimes you may want to utilize your tonic chord in a more interesting way that simply your tonic triad in root position.

In this video, we're talking about several different ways to spice up your tonic chords in your songs. 

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