Continuing Piano Lessons Online - "Tension and Release"
Exploring the use of "Tension...

...and Release!"
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Advanced piano lessons text transcript - Have you ever heard anyone playing the piano or the keyboard, and they seem to be finding all those "extra" notes that you could never find? Somehow they would play all the right notes, but somehow alse they would add a few extra notes that may not technically be within the chord structure, and these extra notes would serve to add just a little extra "zing" to the chord. These added notes are callled "non-chord tones". They can change an ordinary musical passage that's just "okay" to something really beautiful.