What is a chromatic passing note?
Chromatic passing notes have an accidental added, because they don't occur within in the key of the piece. The occur between two notes which are a tone (whole step) apart. For example, this passing note is C# - it falls between the two chord notes C and D. Your browser does not support the audio element.
What are the passing notes?
A passing tone (PT) or passing note is a nonchord tone prepared by a chord tone a step above or below it and resolved by continuing in the same direction stepwise to the next chord tone (which is either part of the same chord or of the next chord in the harmonic progression).