Wait, is the IV the I???

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:01][music] >> If we're writing a song and we want a big lift at the end, but we don't want to be cliché [music] about it. We don't want to just do a half step or a whole step.

[00:00:10]Why don't we learn from one of the greatest [music] who's ever done it, Stevie Wonder?

[00:00:14]Stevie will start in C here and he'll gradually work his down with secondary dominance to the sixth [music] chord.

[00:00:26]And then another secondary [music] dominant to the four.

[00:00:30]We could go back to C, >> [music] >> but we don't.

[00:00:35]Why?

[00:00:37]Cuz [music] Stevie just lifted it us up a perfect fourth.

[00:00:43]That's a big jump.

[00:00:44]>> [music] >> Go big or go home.

[00:00:47]And he's going to take us down again.

[00:00:49]First to the six. [music] And then [music] to the four [singing] of F major, B flat.

[00:00:59]But is it the four? [music] No, it's not. We're in the key of B flat. That's another perfect fourth.

[00:01:06]We just keep being [music] lifted up.

[00:01:08][singing] The energy just keeps being revved up.

[00:01:11]But we're not done.

[00:01:13]He's [music] going to do it again.

[00:01:19]>> [music] >> Down to the sixth chord.

[00:01:24]And then down to the four chord, [music] E flat. But it's not the four, [singing] of course. It's our last key, key of E flat. And we do it one more time and the heavens have [music and singing] opened up and we can see the sun.

[00:01:36]And just [music] when you think he's going to do it again, we start heading down to the six, our C minor. [music] This is from [singing] Evil, from Music of My Mind.

[00:01:48]We end on a big C major, the exact chord we started on. And that is reason number 1972 why Stevie Wonder's the greatest of all time.

[00:01:59]>> [music] >> Happy practicing.