copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
What is forward momentum? - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange The forward momentum of music (as of life, generally) is thus maintained by a hierarchy of subgoals within subgoals Dubstep Drumming By Donny Gruendler : Listen to any Dubstep track What makes the song groove and flow as you are listening to it? Does is feel like a train that cannot be stopped?
terminology - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange Is there a specific term to describe the tension that arises when songs are played in reverse? Where it sounds as if the volume is increasing for each note For example:
musicology - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange Example (Legend of Zelda main theme): "What gives that dramatic sense of forward momentum? Oh, its a circle of fifths chord progression (with some interesting borrowed chords) " Other examples might use stylish combinations of classical and jazz (Super Marios Bros Overworld theme)
What do non-chord tones do in a melody? 2 Yes, non-chord tones provide unstable dissonance to a melody which through movement to consonant chord tones provides forward momentum to music Also, there is a general harmonic aesthetic which considers all chord tone music bland consonance and good harmony should provide a balance of consonance and dissonance
How to transition from a swing feel to a straight feel Trivially, you can just instruct the musicians to play with a straight feel at the chorus, and the musicians will just do that I suppose you're probably wondering how to make that transition seem less abrupt One way is to make the transition happen in the measure before the chorus begins, so that we are already in a straight feel at the downbeat Another is to have only quarter-note rhythms
chord theory - Paul Hindemith Omitted Fifths - Music: Practice . . . A more trivial reason for omitting the fifth in jazz is that it sounds too stable, consonant and doesn't need a resolution, making it less appealing and stifling forward momentum (and you could use that finger to play a non-chord altered tone)