Student Exercise: To review the categories of fusion and tension as introduced in the last F.B.H. column, name fully the following intervals, and then describe each one as being either constant, neutral, or mildly / strongly dissonant.

For those readers who made an effort to analyze example 1 from the last Fretboard Harmony column, the answers are:

The Voicing of Chords, Voicing – from “voice,” a technical term meaning an individual part of ‘strand’ within a composition. The word is used in discussing instrumental music because writing for instruments originally imitated similar writing for human voices.

In music, however, the technique of memorisation has always been important. For a performing musician, only systematic memorisation can help the player to overcome the much feared “blackout.”