Augmented 6th Chords - Music Theory
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Date: 2022-03-28
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wayne
Harmonic Minor has an augmented chord for the 3rd scale degree. When playing in a major key or minor key the only way to add an augmented chord is to borrow the augmented chord from the harmonic minor parallel key. If you're in C major or A minor you can borrow the -Eb augmented chord- from the parallel C minor key. This Eb augmented chord can be used as a predominant chord or dominant chord?
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Harmonic Minor has an augmented chord for the 3rd scale degree. When playing in a major key or minor key the only way to add an augmented chord is to borrow the augmented chord from the harmonic minor parallel key. If you're in C major or A minor you can borrow the -Eb augmented chord- from the parallel C minor key. This Eb augmented chord can be used as a predominant chord or dominant chord?
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Michael
Apparently I've been using this chord but I thought of it as a shell voicing (drop the fifth) of a V7 chord. Am I confused or are these actually the same thing?
Edit: nevermind, I see what I got wrong. As a guitarist I recognized the shape is the same, but where it fits relative to the tonic is a totally different relationship.
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Apparently I've been using this chord but I thought of it as a shell voicing (drop the fifth) of a V7 chord. Am I confused or are these actually the same thing?
Edit: nevermind, I see what I got wrong. As a guitarist I recognized the shape is the same, but where it fits relative to the tonic is a totally different relationship.
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Khasab
these things ARE dom7th chords as well, really the whole thing is psychological, it's not 'out there' in reality, it's just how we choose to think of the chords and use them, isn't it? at least in a system of equal temperament . I could just as easily go from this Italian aug 6th chord to to Db major if I think of it as Ab7
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these things ARE dom7th chords as well, really the whole thing is psychological, it's not 'out there' in reality, it's just how we choose to think of the chords and use them, isn't it? at least in a system of equal temperament . I could just as easily go from this Italian aug 6th chord to to Db major if I think of it as Ab7
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BrandX
Could you explain why it-s called an augmented 6th, when the 6th has been diminished not augmented? Then the augmented 6th becomes the 6th degree above this now finished or lowered original 6th. I can understand what it is but not why it is? An augmented 6th that is built on the diminished 6th of the major scale?
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Could you explain why it-s called an augmented 6th, when the 6th has been diminished not augmented? Then the augmented 6th becomes the 6th degree above this now finished or lowered original 6th. I can understand what it is but not why it is? An augmented 6th that is built on the diminished 6th of the major scale?
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Khasab
I'll have to work a bit on getting my head around this: I can't see why we need to to go to the 6th above the tonic then flatten it? and why put that first and not the tonic? an surely if it's augmented wouldn't we want to raise the 6th a semitone to A# ?
oh dear I'll have to go away and have a think -
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I'll have to work a bit on getting my head around this: I can't see why we need to to go to the 6th above the tonic then flatten it? and why put that first and not the tonic? an surely if it's augmented wouldn't we want to raise the 6th a semitone to A# ?
oh dear I'll have to go away and have a think -
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Pip
Thankyou for making this so easy to understand . Your teaching is so helpful .
Is the German Augmented 6th the only one you can use for modulation into other keys or can the others be used aswell say to G Major or A Major using the F Sharp and Ab as G Sharp respectively
Many thanks
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Thankyou for making this so easy to understand . Your teaching is so helpful .
Is the German Augmented 6th the only one you can use for modulation into other keys or can the others be used aswell say to G Major or A Major using the F Sharp and Ab as G Sharp respectively
Many thanks
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Stefano
Hello Gareth. Crystal-clear as usual, thanks a lot. What about placing a natural E in there? As in Ab / C / E / F#. What nationality would that aug 6 be? I'm Italian so I'm OK already, so let's call it the British aug 6 in your honour! Cheers
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Hello Gareth. Crystal-clear as usual, thanks a lot. What about placing a natural E in there? As in Ab / C / E / F#. What nationality would that aug 6 be? I'm Italian so I'm OK already, so let's call it the British aug 6 in your honour! Cheers
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melvin
Why is the recipe require starting on the minor 6 ? Is it used like a 4 minor chord in major ? But then the f# is like a Neapolitan minor 2 in Fminor . Is this where the Neapolitan function is used ? Trying to figure this stuff out thanks
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Why is the recipe require starting on the minor 6 ? Is it used like a 4 minor chord in major ? But then the f# is like a Neapolitan minor 2 in Fminor . Is this where the Neapolitan function is used ? Trying to figure this stuff out thanks
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thelonious1234
Totally got it now, cheers for that. I can't quit my brain from hearing Ab7 though. So I hear tritone sub of V of V --> V --> I. But this was fuzzy and you've completely cleared it up for me. Thanks again.
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Totally got it now, cheers for that. I can't quit my brain from hearing Ab7 though. So I hear tritone sub of V of V --> V --> I. But this was fuzzy and you've completely cleared it up for me. Thanks again.
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Daniel
So what do we call a chord that contains the following formula: 1 -3 -#5 - 6 ? This is an augmented triad plus the 6th. Is this not also an augmented 6th chord? Or is this known as an -augmented major 6th?-
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So what do we call a chord that contains the following formula: 1 -3 -#5 - 6 ? This is an augmented triad plus the 6th. Is this not also an augmented 6th chord? Or is this known as an -augmented major 6th?-
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