- Take any two notes and explore the chord combinations available.
- Take any two chords and explore the melodic possibilities between
them. - Listen to some familiar music and see if you can identify the non-
chord tones by ear. - Write a chord progression and extract the structural tones.
- See how many different non-chord tones you can add and determine
which ones work well for your style of music composition. - Invent a whole new melody by removing some of the original struc-
tural tones and leaving the non-chord tones.
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