Improve Your Chord Progressions With Secondary Dominants

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In this weeks lesson we'll explore secondary dominant chords and how to use them to compose chord progressions. We'll also dive into some voice leading, diminished chord substitutions, and passing chords to take your chord progressions to the next level!
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