The Simple Trick That'll Help Bring Your Music To Life

[@阿魚-n9h]

Hello, it is a viewer from Taiwan .You mentioned this passage in your video "Now you probably know this as a suspension. There are many terms and rules regarding how you approach this, like suspension, anticipation, and many others. But I usually tend to look at them as different kinds of suspensions because, at their core function, they're all suspensions. " I don’t really understand what it means. Could you provide some examples to explain it? Actually, I don’t fully grasp non chord tones, especially arpeggio anticipation suspension, because they seem quite complex to me.

[@ahmadrezaghasemian]

Hello! I'm sorry for the passage being unclear. I'll try to explain it as good as I can, but if it still is hard to understand, don't hesitate to let me know! So imagine a C major chord going to a G major like the example in the video: let's say the chord change happens and every note moves to either G, B or D. But one of the C notes stays as C for a little while longer after the chord change occurs. Now that C doesn't belong to G major in that context, so it creates dissonance and (traditionally speaking at least) that C feels like it wants to resolve to a tone that belongs to G major (B being the ideal target note in this case). Now this is an example of what is officially regarded as a suspention (a note which is "suspended" throughout a chord change which will "with some delay" resolve by a step to one of the tones of the target chord in a way that's convincing). Now Anticipation is exactly the opposite: imagine if only the C moves to B or D, and all the other C major notes are suspended and will resolve with delay. Now this is why I said I look at all of them as different forms of suspentions. In what we call "Suspention" all the notes move on and then they drag the note that is left behind (which is usually in the melody for a better effect). But in "Anticipation" one of the notes goes ahead early, and then it drags everybody else with it. I hope this could help make it a bit easier to understand. Then again, if any of this is confusing or hard to follow, lmk and I'd be happy to help! :)

[@阿魚-n9h]

@@ahmadrezaghasemian Thank you for your patience in explaining everything to me. I understand now, and I am truly grateful！

[@ahmadrezaghasemian]

​@@阿魚-n9h Of course! I'm glad it was helpful :)

[@akatastrophe]

Wow, the delaying notes provide an interesting dissonance that eventually gets resolved! I love how suspension can make the listener feel more emotionally connected to the music. Also, which composition program did you use for your examples?

[@ahmadrezaghasemian]

Yes exactly! I use Sibelius with NotePerformer

[@seanapan9897]

Thank you

[@mbd3604]

👌thanks