It seems to be E Dorian at the point of the A chord, but the C chord - which is a CM, brings it back to Em. So it's not really clear if it's Dorian and the C chord is "wrong", or it's Em and the A chord is "wrong", but again, since we're so Major/minor conditioned, we'd generally see it as Em, with the A chord being a nod to Dorian. Can you use a Chromatic Mediant in a Mode? Otherwise, it sounds more like it was borrowed from the tonic minor (one of the prime cases of modal interchange). Can you use a Chromatic Mediant in a Mode? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the musictheory community. So, the resolution of the chromatic mediant chord is simply its movement to a more stable chord. Do you have a melody? Roots are related by a major or minor 3rdup or down 2. Or the fact that it's just a 7th on the chord that makes it different from Ionian doesn't matter that much? F major / A major / Bbmajor (IV) / Edim (VII). what chord can I use after these 2 chords? Why are you talking about modes? By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. And just because I'd like to know your insight as well, I'd like to ask the same question I did to the other user in this same post. Share the same quality I.e major to major, minor to minor. Why are you talking about modes? Does CM chords only work if they are next to each other in the progression or can I have a bunch of chords and then use a CM chord not considering the previous chord it will be next to, but to the tonal centre or key of the song? The chromatic mediant chord in the major key can be resolved to the 6-chord in the key. The following 23 files are in this category, out of 23 total. Press J to jump to the feed. For example, in the key of C major the diatonic mediant and submediant … Shar… Can I even use a chromatic mediant in a mode? But if you just wanted to throw in an Eb chord as a CM to the G chord, it would suddenly make it seem like you'd switched to Phrygian mode. Below is the definition for Chromatic Mediantsand the rules which must be followed for a Chromatic Mediant relationship to be formed. Cookies help us deliver our Services. A subreddit for people who care about composition, cognition, harmony, scales, counterpoint, melody, logic, math, structure, notation, and also the overall history and appreciation of music. F - A - Dm is just a secondary dominant (so is the first one actually, but it's a deceptive resolution while this one is an "authentic" resolution). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This page was last edited on 21 June 2018, at 13:59. you could go to Am, or Gm. Contain one common tone. As for bIII as chromatic mediant vs. modal interchange, I generally only classify bIII as a chromatic mediant when it is tonicized/modulated into, it resolves immediately to I, or it resolves directly from a dominant-function chord. This is its normal name (sus-dominante) in French. Am might actually sound kind of cool and not a choice most people would make. Chromatic mediant from Tchaikovsky's Chant sans paroles mm. Go back to F - can't go wrong with the chord you came from. Roots are related by a major or minor 3rd up or down. As a completely new tonal center? The movement of an unstable chord to a more stable chord is called resolution. If you had D Dorian, you'd need a G chord in there to make it sound Dorian and not minor. Thanks for the reply it's so much clear now! How do you want the A chord to function? Some of these though are actually quite common and once you learn to play enough music you would know them - and you probably recoginize the sounds already. But I think it sounds boring. In music, the submediant is the sixth degree of the diatonic scale, the lower mediant—halfway between the tonic and the subdominant ("lower dominant"). Hi, I'd like to make a progression in the key of F major with a chromatic mediant starting like this: FMajor ---> Amajor, what chord can I use after these 2 chords? Can you just suggest an idea of an "interesting" approach to this progression if we consider that the key is in major/minor using for example a borrowed chord from a parallel mode? It's just that I really dig the sound of a major chord a 3rd above another major chord, it sounds really cinematic to me. 43-45.png, Chromatic mediants in C major and A minor without text.png, Chromatic mediants in C major and a minor.png, Common tone modulation between chromatic mediants in Mozart K 475.mid, Common tone modulation between chromatic mediants in Mozart K 475.png, Secondary dominant vs. chromatic mediant without text.png, Secondary dominant vs. chromatic mediant.mid, Secondary dominant vs. chromatic mediant.png, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Chromatic_mediants&oldid=307467779, Uses of Wikidata Infobox with no instance of, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. F Lydian would require you to center the music on F, which is difficult enough because of our Major-centric conditioning (Lydian is the most difficult mode to write in that is commonly used). 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