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🔗 A pedal point is a note that is held through changing harmonies, starting as a chord tone before becoming a non-chord tone. Pedal points are often in the bass voice (the term “pedal” relates to the foot pedals on an organ).

Types of Pedal Points They are the double pedal, inverted pedal, and internal pedal notes. The double pedal point occurs when two pedal points are played at the same time. A typical double pedal point occurrence is a perfect fifth being played in the bass voice.

So this video is just covering. The idea of pedal point harmony relatively quickly so pedal point harmony occurs when the rhythm section. Does not play a strict written out chord progression.

Sometimes songs will have repeating bass lines, which are called ostinatos . Ostinatos can have a similar function to bass pedal points, but rather than have the harmony of the song shift above a single repeated note, it shifts above an entire bass melody.

Build so you can hear the point of the pedal point building this tension. And quite often the most common pedal point or pedal note is what we call a dominant pedal point the dominant is the fifth

A drone differs from a pedal tone or point in degree or quality. A pedal point may be a form of nonchord tone and thus required to resolve unlike a drone, or a pedal point may simply be considered a shorter drone, a drone being a longer pedal point.

How do you indicate a pedal point?

1. One note in the bass tied over for a few measures.
2. Repeated notes in the bass that are all the same.
3. If the sustained note sounds higher than the rest of the music, it is probably an inverted pedal point.

pedal point, in music, a tone sustained through several changes of harmony that may be consonant or dissonant with it; in instrumental music it is typically in the bass.

Pedal point simply means that you keep the same note in the bass throughout the progression, even if that bass note doesn't actually fit the chord above it.

a sustained tone drone, French bourdon, in music, a sustained tone, usually rather low in pitch, providing a sonorous foundation for a melody or melodies sounding at a higher pitch level.

However, the pedal point is unique among non-chord tones, "in that it begins on a consonance, sustains (or repeats) through another chord as a dissonance until the harmony", not the non-chord tone, "resolves back to a consonance". Pedal points "have a strong tonal effect, 'pulling' the harmony back to its root".

Music Notation The “ped” marking indicates that you should press the pedal down, while the asterisk indicates that you should release the pedal. Alternatively, a line below the staff also indicates when to depress and release the pedal.