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  2. Nonchord tone - Wikipedia

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    A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord set out by the harmonic framework. In contrast, a chord tone is a note that is a part of the functional chord.

  3. Passing chord - Wikipedia

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    Passing chord in B ♭ from across the circle of fifths (tritone, see also tritone substitution): B ♮ 7 Play ⓘ. [1] The circle of fifths drawn within the chromatic circle as a star dodecagon. [2] In music, a passing chord is a chord that connects, or passes between, the notes of two diatonic chords. [3] "

  4. Bebop scale - Wikipedia

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    The bebop major scale is derived from the Ionian mode (major scale) and has a chromatic passing note added (a ♯ 5) between the 5th and 6th degrees of the major scale. . Adding the ♯ 5 note to the seven-note major scale allows the chord tones 1, 3, 5 and 6 (a major 6th chord) to land on on-beats when the scale is played sequen

  5. Chord-scale system - Wikipedia

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    Disadvantages include the exclusion of non-chord tones characteristic of bop and free styles, the "in-between" sounds featured in the blues, and consideration of directionality created between the interaction of a solo and a chord progression: "The disadvantages of this system may become clear when students begin to question why their own ...

  6. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic most often refers to structures derived from the chromatic scale in 12-tone equal temperament, which consists of all semitones. Historically, however, it had other senses, referring in Ancient Greek music theory to a particular tuning of the tetrachord, and to a rhythmic notational convention in mensural music of the 14th to 16th ...

  7. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    Bebop scales add a single chromatic passing tone to the seven-note major scale (Ionian and Mixolydian modes). The added passing tone creates an eight-note scale that fits rhythmically evenly within a 4 4 measure of 8 eighth notes, thus making it useful in practicing.

  8. Chromatic scale - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic scale drawn as a circle The diatonic scale notes (above) and the non-scale chromatic notes (below) [2] The twelve notes of the octave—all the black and white keys in one octave on the piano—form the chromatic scale. The tones of the chromatic scale (unlike those of the major or minor scale) are all the same distance apart, one ...

  9. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    In tonal music, chord progressions have the function of either establishing or otherwise contradicting a tonality, the technical name for what is commonly understood as the "key" of a song or piece. Chord progressions, such as the extremely common chord progression I-V-vi-IV, are usually expressed by Roman numerals in