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The word tritone substitution may sound frightening, but the result using this technique are anything but frightening. Replacing chords like this adds a lot of colour to your playing. In this lesson you will learn first steps replacing the chord of the fifth degree of a II-V-I-progression with a seventh chord, whose root note is a flat fifth (tritone) away from the root note of the original fifth degree. This creates chromatic bass movements and particularly colourful chord progressions enlarging your musical vocabulary.