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Originally Posted by JonPR
But really it's just that same feeling we get from learning the name of anything.
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I disagree. The
dominant chord in a piece contains a lot more meaning than simply knowing its name. Of course, it is a very common "waystation" on the way "home." It leads to home. If you start stacking dominants -- the dominant of a dominant -- you get very strong anticipated "motion" toward home. When I play 12-bar blues, I like to use (what I think is called) the gospel progression -- instead of resolving with IV-V-I, I use VI-II-V-I. Note that each chord is the dominant of the next. I think this resolution doesn't just bring the progression home, it
slams it home.