AN attempt to reconstruct the Soft Diatonic mode leads to the following nine-note scale, which combines perfectly with the diatonic scale with the exception of F (3: 4),—the key-note, dominant ...

Step 1: A diatonic chord means a chord that only uses notes from the parent scale of the key, so the diatonic chords for C major, for example, will be built off the notes of the C major scale.

A LETTER from Dr. R. H. Bellairs, of Cheltenham, appeared in the Times of June 14, describing the performance “by a wild bird, probably a thrush, of the arpeggio of the common chord in tune ...

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 ...