New Wave

• Drone - Held note or chord

• Groove - Rhythms together that create a new rhythm that drives the music

• 4/4 - 4 beats in a bar

• Melody - Main tune

• Vocal Harmonies - Multiple melody lines that harmonise together

• Riff - A repetitve, short catchy phrase of music

• Syncopation - off the beat

• Strophic Structure - A structure that uses song sections - verse, chorus, bridge etc

• Countermelodies - A second melody that isn't as important as the main melody - used for decoration

• Seventh Chords - A chord that adds the seventh note

• Sus Chords - Changing the third note to the 2nd or the 4th - creates a slight dissonance

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