Quick Music Theory Q - Vm?

[.onelove.]

Reading the Raven Spiral music theory pdf, one cited chord progression uses 'Vm'

Does this simply imply flattening the third note in the chord? Regardless of whether it's in key or not?

Or, if it's already a minor chord, do you just leave it how it's already transcribed?


So for instance, the IV chord in Gm is Cm; C Eb G

Would IVm mean; C D G ?

OR would because the chord was already minor, IVm remains; C Eb G ?

[serox]

[.onelove.]

Yeah, thanks.

[CE9958]

Vm is exactly what it says. If you're in a minor key the V is minor. in a major key you have 1Major 2minor 3minor 4Major 5Major 6minor 7diminished.

In a minor key you have 1minor 2diminished 3Major 4minor 5minor 6Major 7Major. So the 5 chord of a minor key is minor.

Perhaps they are referring to a minor key? If its definitely a major this is called modal interchange and it is pulling a chord from a different key for creative purposes. But yes a minor5 is indeed just a major5 with a b3

[Sharmaji]

^ exactly that

re: having a minor 5th chord in a major progression, that then opens you up to go different places-- or make more obvious places feel different. if you get to Gm in a Cmaj progression, that Gm can then let you go to Bflat maj quite easily and with a lot of movement. do it from Gmaj, and it sounds like a big, and not all that interesting, jump.