The answer is that by using notes from outside the key, we can point the listener’s ear in directions we wouldn’t have been able to if we only used notes from within it. Why, you might ask, would we want to stray from the key? Many, or even most, great pop songs only contain notes from their original keys. Now we’ll begin to discuss chromaticism, in which we are writing in a particular key and we use notes from outside that key. Most of the concepts we’ve discussed so far allow us to pick a key, remember the notes of that key and stay there. They usually then resolve to x, although sometimes they’ll resolve to a different chord, creating a deceptive resolution. They are the dominant chords of scale degrees other than the tonic, and they’ll typically include at least one note from outside the key. Secondary dominants take the form V/x or V7/x, where x is a normal scale degree.
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