Naming the notes that decorate a melody, and suspensions as an extension.
This week's skills
Check each skill of week 7; anything shaky, read the lessons again in Bass lines and melodic decoration, then come back.
The skills to check
- Passing notes, auxiliary notes, appoggiaturas, anticipations and changing notes
- Suspensions: 4-3 and 7-6, as an extension
You try A note is reached by a leap, lands on the beat and steps onto a chord note. What is it?
Show the answer
An appoggiatura.
The rest of this lesson and its 5 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.
Screen 1 of 3, free to read.
- 5 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
- Anything you get wrong is saved to your flashcards