basics · harmony and shape · lesson 20tension, release and structure
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four on the floor

Music works by building tension and releasing it. A chord that wants to go home, a drum roll before a change, the drums dropping out so their return feels huge. Dance music does this with arrangement: the same loop, with parts taken away and brought back.

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