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You have probably noticed by now that the tritone is not the only interval that can be "spelled" in more than one way.

Both are six half-steps, or three whole tones, so another term for this interval is a tritone.

Although it wasn’t conscious, I swear to God, there are similarities between my so-called “Hamlet” chord and the “Tristan” chord, in that they both have the same augmented fourth — a tritone — at the base of it, F and B.

But as soon as you color it, destabilize it with the F and the tritone at the bottom, it becomes very different.

Write the notes out as a single chord, and you draw a tower of fifths wavering over a tritone in the bass.