Secondary Dominants

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         Secondary Dominants are chords that are the fifth chord from another chord .Often it’s a  dominant of a dominant thus getting  name secondary dominants . For example d
     Here are examples of secondary dominants 

        This one will show you how Secondary dominants are used to enhance jazz harmony .



      This video is from  “Jazz Piano series  owner of this video is Mr. Assaf, the developer of the mangold project  channel on Youtube .
   

This Video shows you how to construct or build  a Secondary dominant chord on he keyboard  and also how to use secondary dominants to enhance a gospel song .


This video is owned and created by Mr Jeff Schneider 





Jens Larson is the creator of this next video .He talks about the use of secondary dominant chords in improvising.









Here we have a video that is showing the power to enhance your ear playing 



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