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Tritones – Tension in Music

🕑 Added 2025-08-31 13:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Mishkin Fitzgerald

Ah thanks for the feedback! I adore the beauty of dissonance... in fast I would say it's been an obsession in my songs of the last few years especially when writing for CV

Mishkin Fitzgerald

I don't think that will ever happen in my music haha!

Mishkin Fitzgerald

Ooh that's a good idea, I should have started with that. I'll get that into my next talk, and I'll double check the piano mics too! Thanks Pete!

Mishkin Fitzgerald

Hi Ian, thanks for this wonderful feedback! Chromatic runs is one of my favourite things to do, especially as a descending or ascending bassline so I'll maybe do that for my next talk. Yeah, Korn are great at that too. Lemme know if you ever wanna book a writing session, I can certainly help!

Ian Hall

Thanks for this. I was aware of some of the examples here, but Maria was a proper surprise! I love that concept in Ribbons of playing a tritone, resolving, but then playing another tritone (a diminished 4th, was it?) to further unsettle the listener. Definitely something to experiment with there for middle 8’s, Metal breakdowns etc 😊 How about using chromatic runs effectively as a theory topic? I believe the middle 8 riff in Freak On A Leash was an E-F-Gb-G, but could well be wrong, as they were probably heavily down tuned. C#? B? 🤷🏻 I can’t seem to write anything that good 🤣

Chris

Thanks Mishkin, that's the first time I've seen the tritone demonstrated as a possibility of something beautiful instead of "evil" - not to say that the Black Sabbath (song) riff isn't beautiful of course, but can see a much wider use for it now

Darren Robinson

As long as we don't stray into Schenkerian analysis, that may trigger some bad memories.

Pete Jordan

Nicely done. I wonder if just the concept of resolution (in the musical sense) might be worth a few words, for people without any theory background? Also, minor point; piano's clipping! x