Tonal Hierarchy: How to Use Consonance & Dissonance for Expressive Guitar Melodies

Описание: Tonal Hierarchy: How to Use Consonance & Dissonance for Expressive Guitar Melodies
(How the Pros Create Expressive Melodies in 7 Dimensions — Episode 3)

Most guitar players jump straight to the question: “What key are we in?”
…then wander through memorized scale shapes and hope a melody magically appears.

But if your solos still feel random, disconnected, or emotionally flat, it’s usually because you’ve never been taught tonal hierarchy — the internal “emotional map” hiding inside every scale.

In this episode, Nate breaks down how the best players organize:
• Consonance → your “resolution notes”
• Mild & moderate dissonance → your “movement notes”
• High-tension sounds → your emotional spices
• Chromatic, exotic, and microtonal colors
…so you can choose sounds on purpose instead of just cycling through patterns.

You’ll learn how to:
✔ Build a consonant skeleton that instantly gives your melody structure
✔ Add intentional tension without sounding out of key
✔ Hear the emotional personality of every note
✔ Practice audiation so you know how each note feels before you even play it
✔ Move from scale memorization → real melodic storytelling

By the end, you’ll understand why the pros never treat scales as “notes to run.”
They treat them as characters with personalities — and they decide exactly when each one shows up.

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   • 7 Dimensions Of Melodic Guitar Playing  

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:47 The WRONG way to create melodies
02:47 Tonal Hierarchy
03:23 Disclaimer
04:13 Melodic phrase - Key of C Major
05:54 What do the notes of the scale feel like to you?
08:19 Audiation
09:59 Tonal Consonances
11:51 Tonal Dissonances
14:01 Varying Degrees of Consonance & Dissonance
15:49 Which notes in the scale feel the most resolved
19:49 Consonant Skeleton
22:42 What if you can't find the "flavor" you're looking for