| |
| | Chords Leading -- 1 Feb 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The most important chord in any key is the tonic (the ‘I’, or Roman numeral one) chord (in the key of C, it’s C). |
 | | So in the key of C, the ii chord is Dm.) This is because, in theory, just as the dominant moves to the tonic, the second (which is the dominant of the dominant) moves toward the dominant. |
 | | In A, the progression is again V - IV - I. So in both cases, a progression that fits within one key (D in the 1st case, A in the 2nd), is used in the "adjacent" key (A in the 1st case, E in the 2nd). |
| home.earthlink.net /~kstengel226/guitar/theory/chord_leading.html (1757 words) |
|