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The Lilting Banshee Key of A minor, Dropped D tuning
As with the previous tune I’m juxtaposing the notes C and B in the first chord: this is a simple way of adding colour to the harmonic texture. Also notice in the first part that each time I move to the G chord I do so half a bar late, again building and resolving harmonic tension. In bar eight I don’t play a G at all but instead continue with the E minor, the relative minor of G major, which resolves to the tonic. In the second bar of the B part I add in a C major chord thus adding to the harmonic tension created in the first part by delaying the move to the G.
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The Lilting Banshee with substitutions
In this version I omit the G chord in bar four. In bar five I substitute the A minor chord with an F major chord, F major being the sixth chord (VI) of the key of A minor and sharing two notes - A and C - with the tonic.
The B part starts on a D modal chord; I like to use this as a substitution in an A minor tune. I think that it's important that it's a modal (open) and not a major chord.
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