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25 Questions

1. Tension Ranking (minor) from least to most tension

2. Ornamentations

3. Scope (lyrics)

4. Contentual Tension

5. 4 steps of energy curve

6. Hollywood curve arrangement

7. Energy peaks

8. Surprise

9. Tonic Chords

10. Example Subdominant Phrase

11. Example Tonic Phrase

12. Ending Cold

13. Example Dominant section

14. Structural Tension

15. False Promise

16. Adding/ Subtracting elements/Filtering/high and low passing/resonance sweeps

17. Dominant Chains (build tension)

18. Implied Tension

19. The bored-line

20. Increasing anticipation

21. Pre-Chorus

22. Contrasting Low-Energy Music.

23. Hype is static

24. Risky melody technique

25. Bridge

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