Before getting into more types of Harmony, there's something that's made THIS year great for me... realizing it's 'dissonance' that drives music - both, in forms of Melodic Dissonance AND forms of Rhythmic Dissonance!  (TENSION........ and release! Thread)

Our lives would be so boring if totally uneventful/peaceful - MONOTONOUS!  Still, pretty amazing how nomatter what conflict/tension we experience in our lives (see, hear, or feel) - we want it to resolve, we 'anticipate' returning to a state of peace/tranquility.  Same with hearing/feeling music. 

There is 'tension & release' (in Harmony) caused by changing pitch intervals from dissonant to consonant in Chord Progressions, but 'tension & release' can also be caused by Harmonic Rhythm - the rate/how often chords change!  One drone (or chord), played for more than several measures, helps keep music feeling steady & peaceful.  Chords that change several times within a measure - causes excitement/tension!  

"The art of harmonic rhythm: creating depth in your music" - (Alexandre David Composer) 

I'm so disappointed, been looking at some videos on reharmonization, but some people are stuck in a box - only borrowing chords that are major or minor... seems they are missing out on all the mode possibilities. 

Modal Interchange - Music with Myles.

To me, this is exciting!  I've been playing around with chord substitutions, but it's time I start getting serious. 

I'm used to gathering/using info & ideas from guitar & piano videos - for on/or with the fiddle, because frankly... more is available.  Modes are readily used in Irish & Scottish genres, but fast session playing & fast dancing don't leave a lot of room for adventurous harmony.  There's jazz, but there's not a whole lot of info on modal interchange/substitution for jazz violin... so learning what I can from pianists! 

Not keen on paying for more books (keeping myself so busy, I'm just not using them), but I did find the mDecks Music YT Channel interesting.  I'll be spending some time checking out what little tidbits I can pick up (stuff about video game music here, too).  

There's one thing might be holding me back in all this. 😳

I'm not any good at hearing/identifying chord inversions.  I still automatically think of the lowest note as the root ("The problem with chords." 01:45 OP video)... until it doesn't make sense.  Then again, I still listen for melody more than harmony. 😔 

Anyway, I want to consider using Chord Inversions as another way to reharmonize. 

How Inversions and Slash Chords Create Better Progressions (Signals Music Studio). 

Hook Theory has chords labeled both as Slash Chords & by interval for their interactive chord progressions - Key Cheat Sheets.

Hooktheory.com also has an app you can purchase (Chord Crush) to help practice learning chords BY EAR.  

🤔... so, why not spice up a basic minor tune, reharmonize with Harmonic Minor?

Uncle Ben Eller's Spooky Scale Secrets! Harmonic Minor Mastery!  (Time-stamped Chapters).

...I'm going to show you how to BUILD stuff from that scale to make spine-tingling arpeggios, chords, and chord progressions!!!! This will help you make the sounds you've heard all over Danny Elfman soundtracks, tech death bands like the Faceless, and more! Its a graveyard smash!!!

Jeez, I need to start getting more familial with chord inversions for a couple of my favorite keys.  Maybe I'll just write them out for comparison & play them a bunch of times... itching to play something in Harmonic Minor!