A Buddy Holly-style riff in diatonic 3rds follows ... shows how he might use the minor pentatonic scale with added reverb and delay to forge a great guitar hook. Our second example shows how ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.