You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn about

dominant function and using dominant seventh chords.

This includes instruction on secondary dominance, voice leading, and harmonic minor

chord progressions.

This lesson is based on my book, fretboard theory, volume 2, chapter 3. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna. In music, we think of chords leading from one to another rather than just being random.

And one of the most important leadings is the five chord leading to the one chord or the

dominant leading to the tonic. So for example in the key of C. C is your one chord you'd call that your

tonic and the fifth chord is G and the chord built the fifth scale degree is called the dominant. So you can call the

chord that's built off of the fifth degree the dominant chord. If you add a

seventh to it you call it a dominant chord. If you add a seventh to it you call it a

dominant seventh and this dominant chord leads to and wants to resolve back

on the tonic chord.

And this is a real important function of music.

We call it dominant function. And there's a couple of reasons why the five

chord leads to the one chord. The first reason is because it has what's called

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