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Tritone Substitutions
A ‘tritone substitution’ is a popular trick for making your music sound more sophisticated. I’ll show you a couple of videos with lots of examples. But since I’m mathematici…
I’m very glad to learn that the slippery, suave sound at a certain point of The Girl from Ipanema comes from using a tritone substitution. David Bennett could have made a nice easy video full of examples where musicians apply a tritone substitution to a dominant seventh chord in its most natural position, where it starts at the 5th note in the major scale. Don’t mix this up with the submarine used by the Greek sea god born of Poseidon and Aphrodite: that’s the ‘Triton sub’.
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