Saturday, March 31, 2012

arpeggio

Arpeggio: a chord played as a stream of its individual notes. They add a layer of complexity and subtlety to music because you can choose exactly which notes from the chord will coincide with particular notes in the tune and also add a rhythm to the arpeggio pattern. Common in classical music, particularly anything with romantic in the title.




















as opposed to the use of full chords:


















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