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Apr 8, 2020 at 14:31 vote accept Phemelo Khetho
Apr 4, 2020 at 17:04 comment added John Belzaguy This answer is by far the best explanation. Using chords from the parallel minor key is a very common and effective device. It occurs in many other ways, not just on a IV chord, for example on the tonic in several Jobim tunes like Wave and Triste. Other widely used parallel minor chords are the bIII and the bVI. Also I don’t see any correlation between a IVm7 and a VIIo chord.
Apr 4, 2020 at 16:33 comment added leftaroundabout Yes, the ⅳ chord has also been discussed in numerous other questions on the site. IMO it acts not so much as a burrowed chord from the parallel minor, but as a neat way of bringing in some tension in form of notes from the strongly dominant ⅶ⁰ chord, without the dissonance of an actual diminished chord.
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