Secondary Dominant Chords & Primary Dominant Chords

[JazzJunkie]

Secondary Dominant Chords are dominant chords that,when functioning, resolve to a diatonic chord other then the tonic.The domimant chord that dose resolve to the tonic V7 may be thought of as the primary dominant chord.


key Of C
 Dmin9 G7 Cmaj7...... this is a 2-5-1 in the key of C which is a primary dominant because the V7 resovles to the 1.

Secondary dominant generally resovles to the diatonic a perfect 5 below. instead of the 6 beening a Amin change it to a A7.

A7 Dmin9 G7 Cmaj7

If you want you can strecth this a little farther by changing the Dmin9 to a D7

A7 D7 G7 Cmaj7

notice the more dominants you use the more tension you have, and they all resovle a perfect 5 below.


Feel free to let me know what you think

<JazzJunkie>

[chevonee]

Welcome to the LGM family JazzJunkie, God bless you!! I think that I recognize you from Hear and Play. Anywho thank you for sharing this info with us. Stay blessed!

[musallio]

Hey JazzJunkie,

Good 2 have U here

[T-Block]

Basically, there is only 1 dominant for every key, 5-1.  Anything else is a secondary dominant: 7-3, 3-6, 6-2, 2-5, 1-4.  You can even have secondary dominants going to secondary dominants, hence the 7-3-6-2-5-1 progression, ending with the true 5-1 dominant.

Cool stuff man, keep the knowledge flowing.

[musallio]

Thanks JJ & TB

this is really powerful & will help me do some amazing stuff

Keep up the good work