tritone
- noun
- /ˈtraɪtoʊn/
- Specialized
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tritono
- Thou shalt have no tritones.
So there are two different scales to play over the tritone substitute.
- So there are two different scales to play over the tritone substitute.
- It has also this tritone, tritone Subs, Yeah, flavor.
- However you want to look at it, it's the same note is the tritone and it's your blue note.
Examples
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- This, it's the Devil's Tritone.
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Okay, so, first of all, since we're in theory 101, this is a tritone scale.
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However you want to look at it, it's the same note is the tritone and it's your blue note.
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But you don't wanna be in the tritone, man.
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It has also this tritone, tritone Subs, Yeah, flavor.
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The tritones—a "devil's interval" used in the service of beauty and elegant composition.
Blog text (15) -
You go a half-step higher, you've got something they used to call the Devil's Tritone, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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Heavy metal as a genre really didn't solidify until Black Sabbath came along and introduced the so-called "Devil's Tritone" to rock music with their eponymous song.
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No matter which two tones of a pentatonic mode are combined, they do not form any minor second or tritone intervals—the two relatively more dissonant intervals found in the diatonic major and minor modes of Western music.
Academic text (2007) -
In Western music theory, the tritone is often referred to as the 'devil's interval' due to its dissonant sound.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tritone comes from tri- 'three' and tone 'note' or 'sound', so in music it is an interval made of three whole tones and that 'three-tone' gap is what makes it sound tense or dissonant.
