what chord or instrument or something.. gives a sense of urgency?.. or something big

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RhyanCrisis

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what instruments or strings or whatever?... what scale or chord or melody or whatever. gives a sense of urgency? or something big is about to happen? or epic change?
 
What an epic question - it sent several different ideas racing through my head

Listen to Bohemian Rhapsody - several places in it where what you seek may be found, also The Prophets Song from the same album (Night at the Opera).

In general:
Diminished 7th chords moving up by semitones (3 at most)
Diminished 7th chords moving up by a minor 3rd (it's the same chord in a different vocing)
Slow it right down before the drop
Augmented 7th chords (7#5 ~ 1-3-#5-b7 ~ CEG#Bb)
7Sus4 - 7 with a big slowing down (rallentando) e.g. G7sus4 - G7 (GCDF-GBDF)
 
Suspended chords can also give a listener a sense of urgency as well. Basically, in a suspended chord, you'll have at least the three notes that make a chord....let us say a G major....The notes would be G, B, E. In a suspended 4th chord, the 3rd would be raised 1 semitone up. The chord would now be "G, C, E".

The reason why it gives a listener a sense of urgency is because they always want to resolve the chord. It's a chord that can never end a song, and the listener won't want you to stop on it either!
 
posingmusician said:
Suspended chords can also give a listener a sense of urgency as well. Basically, in a suspended chord, you'll have at least the three notes that make a chord....let us say a G major....The notes would be G, B, E. In a suspended 4th chord, the 3rd would be raised 1 semitone up. The chord would now be "G, C, E".

The reason why it gives a listener a sense of urgency is because they always want to resolve the chord. It's a chord that can never end a song, and the listener won't want you to stop on it either!
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Posing is about right!

A G chord has GBD not GBE

A G Sus4 chord then has GCD as the notes - this is a hangover from the days of resolving chords at a cadence using a cadential 6/4 movement where we approach the final point of the piece as follows

[MP3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/cadential-6-4.mp3[/MP3]
cadential-6-4.png
 
You could also change your strumming pattern (if you're playing guitar) and gradually it's speed until that drop/change.
 
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