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7839 / 18210 · Workshop 62 — Harmonic Side-Slipping: Chromatic Planing, Approach Chords, Outside Playing, Semitone Detours, and Returning Home Without Sounding Random← prev⊞ allnext →

62.8This is side-slipping

Take material that belongs to the current harmonic environment.

Shift it:

  • up a semitone
  • down a semitone

briefly.

Then return.

The chromatic displacement itself becomes the tension.