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Hello all!

I am analyzing a song in C Major,
which modulates to the key of G Major using the chord D dominant 7.th.

This is the chord progression during the modulation in the chorus :
C, D dom 7.th, Bm, Em, Am, D, end with G Major.

1) Right before the chord Bm, the vocal sings the note quot;Fquot;,
which doesn't belong to the G Major scale.
(The melody is something like this : G, F#, F#, F, F#.
The first 4 notes comes with the D dom 7.th chord,
while the last quot;F#quot; comes with the Bm)

How can a quot;Fquot; note appear during a D chord in the key of G Major?

Regards,
Kelvin.

My humble but honest opinion is . . . and this is gonna be a bit weird, so stick with me for a minute if the song you say is in C major, my guess is that the D7 Chord is functioning as a II Dominant chord in C major and not as a V dominant chord in G. Thus, this give's you the ability to bring in the #9 note (F) and the 9 (F#) giving it a very cool tension and resolution sound.

What is the band playing at that chord? Try and listen to hear if its a D7 chord, or a D7b9, D7#9 . . . etc, finding out the upper extensions of the chord will really help determine what the heck is going on . . .

What song is it? I'd like to have a listen to it . . . .

I think the song is in G all the way thru ... that would make the F over the D7 a blue note, which function just fine as such ... adding a vocal inflection ... you could also look at it as a passing or neighboring tone.
In G the progression would be:
IV, V7, iii, vi, and then the familiar cadence of ii, V, I. Of course that's one way of looking at it, non-harmonic tones are very common in keyboard scores, and vocal parts.


Originally Posted by Kent S.that would make the F over the D7 a blue note

yup, yup, yup!

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the first chord of the song is the starting key of the song. As Kent said, the whole thing is in G as C is in the key of G major, so it starts on the IV of G, not the I of C.


Originally Posted by GandLManMy humble but honest opinion is . . . and this is gonna be a bit weird, so stick with me for a minute if the song you say is in C major, my guess is that the D7 Chord is functioning as a II Dominant chord in C major and not as a V dominant chord in G. Thus, this give's you the ability to bring in the #9 note (F) and the 9 (F#) giving it a very cool tension and resolution sound.

What is the band playing at that chord? Try and listen to hear if its a D7 chord, or a D7b9, D7#9 . . . etc, finding out the upper extensions of the chord will really help determine what the heck is going on . . .

What song is it? I'd like to have a listen to it . . . .

hi,
i have also thought about the D7b9,
but it doesn't seem to be that chord.

and it's a korean song. so i guess you don't know about that song.


Originally Posted by Kent S.I think the song is in G all the way thru ... that would make the F over the D7 a blue note, which function just fine as such ... adding a vocal inflection ... you could also look at it as a passing or neighboring tone.
In G the progression would be:
IV, V7, iii, vi, and then the familiar cadence of ii, V, I. Of course that's one way of looking at it, non-harmonic tones are very common in keyboard scores, and vocal parts.

hi,
i am sure that the song is in the key of C major
and it changes go G major during the chorus.

by the way...
what's a quot;blue notequot; ?

Blue note literally means a 'bluesy' note. For example, in blues it is not uncommon to hear a b3 (your F against the D7) b5 or b7 against a major chord. Therefore these kind of notes against particular harmony are called blue notes because it sounds bluesy.

I don't think it's worth over-analysing this sort of thing, there may not be any logical reasoning for it just that 'it sounds good'. It could be that the vocal line is doing a 'turn' around the F# which is the chord tone against the D7. A turn is often used in classical music, where chromtaic notes are used around a 'pivot note'. If the next note in your example is a G then that could explain it - F# F F# G, or if it's an E then it's a simple 'passing note' as already mentioned.

Yah, I take back what i said, these guys are bang on with the quot;G and Bluenotequot; idea . . .