I was sitting down just now tinkering with an old tune of mine from perhaps 45 years ago, written long before I knew any theory beyond what you learn in a few years worth of classical piano as a child. (Mayor and "minor" scales - by which they actually mean "harmonic minor" but nobody tells you that until some higher grade I never got to.)
Anyway, it mostly rocks between two major chords a whole tone apart (it has a couple of key changes but the riffs simply repeat in, for example, A instead of D).
D major is clearly the home chord, and these days I know that it is in D Mixolydian, rocking between D and C for the main part of each verse before going to Bb. Liker this:
D C
D C
D C
D C
D C Bb
D C Bb
D C Bb
Bb Bb D
All majors. Later on we do the same only using A, G and F, and sometimes other keys (if I feel like it).
Now the bit I'm confused by. D Mixolydian is the 5th mode of G major. That's clear enough. But when I go to the Bb I'm (if you want to think of it this way) borrowing a chord from G minor.
How do we describe that? Is there a proper way?
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.