How to Modulate Down a Half Step

How do you modulate half a step?

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How do you change a half step key?

To put it simply, your basic chord progression ends, you then play a chord that is the dominant chord of the key you’re about to go to, then you repeat the progression a half-step higher. The Ab in the middle is the so-called “dominant chord” that sets your progression up for the new key.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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