Originally Posted By: swingbabymix
Originally Posted By: MarioD
I work in MIDI and I have found that it doesn't matter what chord you use, see below:


I still wish there were rules.
Otherwise, you need to keep trying to find your own satisfaction. grin

There are rules, but fortunately they are for guidance, not mandatory.

A couple of sayings:

"Rules are there to be broken".

"Rules are for the obeyance of fools and the guidance of wise men".

Music uses "tension" and "release" to create colour and drama. Out of key chords are often used precisely to create extra tension, extra surprise. Quite often a chord can be "borrowed" from a parallel scale/mode to create an unexpected movement, or it can be an "approach" chord, deliberately out of the key so that it "wants" to resolve to the key.

In the key of GMajor, there's no Eb, but there is an Eb in the Phrygian, Aeolian and Locrian modes.

Demonstrating All 7 Modes in Parallel [MODAL MUSIC THEORY]

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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