How do I know what type of suspension I have?

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How do I know what type of suspension I have?

Suspensions are labeled based on intervals above the bass. The four common suspension types are 9-8, 7-6, 4-3, and 2-3. Many other types are possible, especially if the bass moves before the resolution occurs.

What is a decorated suspension?

What is a decorated suspension? When other notes dance around in between the dissonant suspension and resolution. What is a retardation? Similar to a suspension, but resolving UP rather than down.

How do you find the suspension of a song?

A suspension can be created when changing chords. The chord changes are the same in both examples. However, in the 2nd extract the F is held and does not move down a degree to the E until the 2nd beat of the bar. The point at which the F is held in dissonance over the new chord is called the suspension.

What does a 4-3 suspension look like?

A 4-3 suspension is when you resolve from one chord to another where normally a 4-3 resolution occurs, like G7-C (f to e), but you delay the movement of the 4th degree to the 3rd. So you move all the voices from G7 to C, except for the F, which results In Csus4.

What is a 4-3 suspension?

Answer: For anyone in our TV audience who hasn’t taken music theory in school, a 4-3 suspension is a case in which a triad appears with a fourth in the place of what should be its third, and the fourth then slides down to where it ought to be. Here’s an example of a 4-3 suspension, from Bach.

What is a 7 6 suspension?

Filters. (music) A suspension that has the suspended note a seventh (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) from the bass move down a step to the note in the chord where the suspension is happening that is a sixth (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) above the bass note.

What are 64 chords?

Arpeggiated six-four chords: The notes are just moved around on the same chord, and at a certain point, the fifth of the chord might occur in the bass, making a 6/4 chord. This type of 6/4 chord can be used without the above restrictions on leaps or doubling, since it is the same chord throughout.

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