![]() ![]() If you want to be a performer, you need to feel them. If you want to be a teacher or composer, you need to know these things. You can either see that as a melody with passing tones, upper and lower neighbors and tension notes or litter your page with melodic appropriate chords such as augmented, flat fifths, 11's, flat 13's, ninths etcetera. Our brains thrive on the resolution, like a sung Amen.Įvery note doesn't have to be chord defined and you can just "throw them away." For example, play an A minor chord in your left hand (A C E) and in your right hand play this line: D B C F D D# E C B F#(lower). It is okay and desirable for the melody or chords to clash with one another. When the melody plays these tension notes, which our brains thrive on because they resolve, you can think of them as passing tones or upper and lower neighbor notes. Think of the chords as a bed or cradle and the melody weaves around it like a humming bird darting about flowers.
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