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Cadences

Minor Plagal Cadence in Bb

IV to minor iv to I: a plagal (IV-I) cadence whose IV chord turns minor on the way home, borrowing its b6 from the parallel minor.

120 BPM
Practice in all 12 keys
  1. E♭maj7 IVmaj7
  2. E♭m6 iv6
  3. B♭maj7 Imaj7

Four-note rootless voicings in their two forms, with the 3rd or the 7th on the bottom, played over the root.

Customize each chord
Meter
4/4
Bars
4

The inner line A, Ab, G in C is the sound of it: the minor iv’s flattened 6th slides down to the 5th of the tonic. It’s heard in ballads and at the ends of bridges. Fm6 has the same notes as Bb9 without its root, so the minor iv and the backdoor bVII7 are often swapped for each other. Practice voicing it with that line on top.

Reharmonize Analyze these changes

None of the usual substitutions apply: there are no dominant 7ths to replace and no whole steps to fill.