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I’ve always been intrigued by the way different musicians will use dissonance as a way to increase tension.
Tension and release-those are the building blocks.
You create tension then, resolve the tension. Tension and release-it’s the key to storytelling. If you build the tension properly, the audience wants to know; needs to know what’s going [...]