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dirkjcbs
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dirkjcbs
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07/01/2023 1:42 pm

@Anders Mouridsen @
@Mike Olekshy @
or anybody else who knows the answer:


In the song Imagine from John Lennon which is in the key of C, there is an E7 in the bridge. I find this strange as it is not the III7 secondary dominant leading to Am. So what is the theory behind this?


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