@OffRoadUnicycler wrote:
Currently, there is only the option in theorytab for IV/x. Secondary subdominants are fairly uncommon, but they show up in a variety of music and it would be nice to show function instead of having to borrow a chord from some parallel mode.
Here's a good example. In the "Gusty Garden Galaxy" tab, the Abm/Cb chord is analyzed as v6. This isn't a great analysis at all, as it doesn't show the function of the chord. Really what's going on there is a "iv - V - i" in the key of the ii chord. So "iv/ii - V/ii - ii."
Another great example is Haywyre's "Insight." In the instrumental section of this theorytab, the Gm chord is analyzed as the vii borrowed from phrygian. But that isn't its function at all. It's another "iv - V - i," this time in the key of the iv. So "iv/iv - V/iv - iv."
It'd be great if instead of just a IV/x option, there was a whole option for secondary subdominants that had IV/x, iv/x, ii/x, and iiº/x.
It seems counterintuitive to me that there would be ONLY a IV/x option and no others. Especially when iv/x tends to be more common.
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