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Originally Posted by echurchill
Ending music on the dominant chord
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I enjoy:
-Odd time signatures, especially for variations on a theme
The augmented scale
-Harmonies in a minor piece that use both harmonic minor and natural minor (i.e. i - bVII - bVI - V)
-Altered dominant chords
-Modes of the major scale, as well as modes of harmonic minor, melodic minor, and harmonic major
-Polyrhythms
-Mixing harmonic minor and the blues scale
-Modulating up a half step by actually using a dominant chord, not just doing it randomly like every show tune ever
-When drummers fall and skin both their knees
-Enharmonic chords in harmonic minor (i.e. bvi, in which the diatonic natural 7 of the scale, which is really a #2 of the chord, functions as a b3; or V+, in which the diatonic b3 of the scale, which is really a b6 of the chord, functions as a +5)