Semitone

/sˈɛmɪtˌə‍ʊn/

/sˈɛmɪtˌoʊn/

[noun]

Semitone

[NOUN]

the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument

synonyms : half step

Examples

1. - Can you talk about a little bit of his discovery of the semitone changes?

2. He realized that the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz soloing.

3. And semitone, in my world, is a half step, which is going from this, (plays saxophone) as opposed to a whole step.

4. Personally speaking for me, I started to discover semitones, frequencies, microtones, resonance, harmonics in my instrument after the mic got put on it.

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