Chromaticism
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classical musi for centuries, fram the
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musi, to Baroque composers uch a Bac,
Mozart and Haydn, up tothe Romantic
music of Schubert, Chopin and beyond
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‘ur ines By mobilising notes that are no in
the key (chromatic), we getto nearly
lube the amox tof itferen notes in our
‘musical palette (rom seven pe eta, 012)
and thiscan really enliven
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chromatic provides swith
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1) Chromatic approac-notes:singlenote
‘sed either fom asemitone aboweer below
the target note
2) Chromatl begin: whereby one
not linked te another (however fr
apart by aconsecutiveseriesof scale
toes and chrommati steps
Incasica musi, when chord
‘onojs arrived at vin ehromatieraute
itis kaown as chromatidecoraton,
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explore the concept of nese
Rascals, enclosareimvolves
anyronding tar nots rma above
and belo ther datonialy (fom the
scale) or hromatcally (rom ouside
‘the scale, so thatthe target eis
“fell surrounded oe enelaned by
‘the dacarative mata eng up tt
Generally, when xppling
seed tobe conalderd are
4) Whether chromatic noteisused
‘onan offbeat the mst palatable
option) ora downbeat (he nto,
pungent option).
1) The speed at which chromatic is
Applied: thelonger younger ona
chtouuticnote, the moet wall
prolong tension fr the listener
converse the quicker pi the
sorelberts canbe than ay
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ing aed rom theroot of each chord
Throughout the sao 'smportant to re
visually grounder youl gtlast andi
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Diagram which showsall five CAGED shapes
of Mivolytan Before wansferrng tat sae
information tothe aher keys (or Cz, D7, E>
and?) Use thi information as your vial
reference when moving around the neck,
Inthe solo transcription each chromatic
rots incest ing an asterisk ust thst
yortean visual istinguish them fom the
corres notes (in ote words the onesthat
balongto each Milian mode) however,
thiseloes ot mean that they should be played
ENCLOSURE INVOLVES
APPROACHING A TARGET
NOTE FROM ABOVE AND
BELOW, TO DIATONICALLY
AND CHROMATICALLY
SURROUND IT
as ghost snotes no rhthmie van}: each
chromate note has fll ote-value (ually
anelghth-note inthis solo) and should be
Paved as loud and proud asany other note
ithinthe line
Finally, the solo ransrption ls eures
hybrid piching indications for certain sections
that reflect the technical approach tat weld
normale adopt ry most nuntry-rock
tar players; however isnot eeenta
‘The same setons can also be altemate picked
(at-pcked, Jost fous on producing as
auch staceato ap and separation between
the notes as possible
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