There is a term for notes that sound resolved, and unresolved. I can't remember what it is.

[DuckSoup]

So I saw this bass lesson on some Youtube channel, and I cannot for the life of me remember, who or what the video was, but the person in the video was talking about something that I found really helpful.

Basically there is a term or phrase for notes that sound resolved and unresolved. Like, how if you play a 5th over a chord, the sound is fairly pleasing and resolved, where as if you played something like a 3rd...The note feels like it needs resolution, or there is tension there.

Does this ring a bell for anyone else? I wish I could find the term that it was given or the video that talked about it, because at the time it really helped makes sense of things that I would improvise over.

 

[Flamingo21]

Errmmm... leading note?

 

[DuckSoup]

Sorry, after making this post I realized I could just look at my Youtube history and look at every music instructional video I've watched...and I found it. So I may as well leave this up in-case this is helpful to anyone else, but what I was was Consonance and Dissonance. The difference between intervals.

Sorry for the pointless thread. :/

 

[Stumbo]

"Resolution in western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one). Dissonance, resolution, and suspense can be used to create musical interest."

Wikipedia

 

[Russell L]

Emotionally, you could call it "tension" and "relief."

 

[Drucifer]

Yes, all terms relating to the same concept, inside-outside, tension-release, consonance-dissonance, suspense-resolution, etc.

 

[mambo4]

One subtle distinction:
Consonance - dissonance can be static. Tension - release or suspense resolution ( and stable - unstable ) implies someting changing over time.

 

[vickerekes]

deceptive cadence. [English] A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord usually the sixth chord or superdominant chord or submediant chord (V-VI), but sometimes something else.

You mean this?

 

[michaeln]

I think of it like this. An Asus4 chord on a guitar is tense sounding and really wants to have that tension relieved. Changing to a straight A chord resolves it and feels relaxed by comparison.