When you use a scale, say, C major, you are playing ‘in the key of C’. The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within ...

Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song. You might decide “right, this will be in C minor,” or you might just string together a seemingly ...

However, one of the biggest ways of all is via the song’s chord progression ... V in a major scale – the heart of Western music. Let’s look at an example. Here’s the scale of C major ...

Sticking with our piano, we’re going to start ... but now within the context of a chord progression. We’ll work with four chords; C major, G major, A minor and F major - very familiar and ...

Then, while they were sleeping, they were played a repeated piano chord, which they had been taught to associate with positive experiences. The chord was C69 – C major, with a major sixth (the note ‘A ...

However, one of the biggest ways of all is via the song’s chord progression ... V in a major scale – the heart of Western music. Let’s look at an example. Here’s the scale of C major ...