What Is a Neighbour Tone

A neighbour tone is where you skip up or down from a note (or chord tone) and then move back to the original note.

What is a neighbor tone?

Like the passing tone, a complete neighbor tone is a melodic embellishment that occurs between two stable tones (typically chord tones); however, a complete neighbor tone will occur between two instances of the same stable tone.

What is a Neighbour chord?

A neighbor tone is just a non-chord tone, that you move to by step, and then back to the original tone. If C is a chord tone, for either 1 harmony in the measure or 2, then moving to D and back to C would make the D a neighbor tone.

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