Using AUGMENTED chords | what, where, how

This video aims to explain what augmented chords are, where you can find them and a few examples of some ways you can use them and incorporate them into chord progressions.
Hopefully this might be useful to someone!

MK

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Video chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:44 What is an augmented chord?
04:15 Storytime
05:33 Where do they come from?
07:02 Some use cases
12:42 More line clichés

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[timball]

Thanks Michael. Love the modulation bit at the end. The “cliche” in line cliche is basically because cliches are predictable. We know the punchline… the direction is expected. Therefore a line cliche means we know the next in the sequence as we can predict it.

[Pabloable]

I love augmented chords. I've used them, plus the various exotic seventh chords that contain them, in a number of the songs I've written. Most commonly, aside from cropping up in line cliches, it comes down to using V+ (or, equivalently and quite often more precisely, bIII+) as a dominant-function chord.

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[ryanharris]

Another incredibly useful video! I thought augmented chords were just a bit of an oddity, I didn’t realise they’re so versatile and useful. Thank you. Please keep cranking out this awesome content!