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Suspended Chords

Lesson 16 from: Music Theory for Electronic Producers

Tomas George

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16. Suspended Chords

<b>In this lesson, I talk about suspended chords and how you can use them in your own electronic music to create suspension.&#160;</b>
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Introduction

00:58
2

Basic Music Theory Terms

08:07
3

Keyboard Layout and Octaves

06:19
4

Working out Major Scales

08:58
5

Perfect 5ths

06:42
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3rds - Part 1

08:05
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3rds - Part 2

07:39
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Perfect 4ths

04:36
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Chords and Inversions - Part 1

10:05
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Chords and Inversions - Part 2

09:13
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Chord Progressions - Part 1

10:22
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Chord Progressions - Part 2

08:26
13

Inversions

08:53
14

7th Chords

09:48
15

Chord Extensions

08:09
16

Suspended Chords

02:40
17

The Circle of 5ths

04:30
18

Minor Scales

08:09
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Chords in the Natural Minor scale

09:56
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Harmonic and Melodic Minor

09:30
21

Write the Chords, then the Melody

09:03
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Write the Melody, then the Chords

18:01
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Arpeggios

08:00
24

Writing Bass Parts

11:35
25

Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies

14:10
26

Song Analysis - Chords, Part 1

10:17
27

Song Analysis - Chords, Part 2

05:58
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Song Analysis - Melody

08:55
29

Song Analysis - Arrangement

07:30
30

Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement

05:04
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Song 2 Analysis - Chords

08:55
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Song 2 Analysis - Melodies

06:34
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Song 3 Analysis - Chords

11:41
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Song 3 Analysis - Melodies and Arrangement

06:55
35

Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 1

10:22
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Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 2

18:47
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Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 3

18:49
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Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 4

08:21
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Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 1

08:16
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Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 2

08:07
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Create a Song from a Melody - Part 1

07:27
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Create a Song from a Melody - Part 2

09:05
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Modes Intro

04:10
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Ionian

00:43
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Dorian

04:31
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Phrygian

02:09
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Lydian

01:35
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Mixolydian

02:13
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Aeolian

00:39
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Locrian

01:50
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Dorian Mode Example

09:12
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Pentatonic Scales

12:27

Lesson Info

Suspended Chords

OK. Now, we're going to have a look at suss chords or suspended chords. You might see this sometimes on a chord, it's just written of a S US, which means a suspended chord. So this is basically where we move the third. So we can have a SUS two, which is basically where we change the third of the chord down to a second or a Sus fourth, which is where we change the third up to 1/4. So let's just write in ac major. So we have root 3rd and 5th. So we can have ac two where we change the third to a second, then we have AC four, we changed the third to 1/4. So 1234, these are great for creating suspension and building up certain parts. So let's just draw in an example. Now, so if we have just a rhythmic pattern here and then we have suspended chords. So we have the suss four to start with and let's put it back down to the suss the normal C major and then let's add in a few suss seconds at the start. So we have this tension of the suss fourth releases to C major and then builds up the tension ...

again with the SUS two, this can be great for build ups or creating some kind of tensor music. If you just have suss chords all the way through, it's just gonna be tense the whole time. Of course, if you want music that's just tense all the time and never releases, you can have suss chords, you can hear it's just tense, Then let's release this and here with the ss too tense the whole way that is, it's released on the C major tense. Again, there's a good way to create build ups and tension just by moving the third, move it down to the second and it'd be called C sus two, suspended two or move it up to the fourth and it'd be called C sus four or suspended fourth. This is basically how you can quickly add in some tension and release in your music. Cos to release this, all you have to do is put it back to the third and to build up tension, experiment with the fourth and the second. So thank you for watching this lecture all about Suss codes or Suspended Accords.

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