Notes Outside the Chord

The six non-chord tones — passing notes, suspensions, appoggiaturas and more — how each is approached and left, and how suspensions are named.

What's inside

• The six notes outside the chord — passing note, auxiliary, suspension, appoggiatura, anticipation, escape note — how each is approached and left, and how it sounds
• Three of them drawn on a stave: passing note, suspension, and appoggiatura
• How to use them, and how suspensions are named by the interval above the bass
• Notes on spotting them in music, pedal notes, and fixing a melody that sounds stiff or vague