To do this, tune into open G by dropping the sixth, fifth and first strings down a tone, then drop the second string down a ...

Once we get into minor chords (with a b3 ... C7, for instance, means a C major chord with a b7th (Bb). C9 (see Example 3) ...

some in B minor, some in F minor, etc). However, whichever keys the original songs are in, they do have their chord progressions – their essential formula – in common. To understand this ...

Melodies, meanwhile, tend to be simple affairs using mainly a handful of notes from the parent scale, dependent on whether the song is in a major or minor key. Let’s create a simple pop/R&B chord ...

Practice makes perfect… Somehow, the dissonance of most dominant 7th-type chords doesn’t lend itself to shimmering clean tones, but here’s a compromise. This 9sus4 will work in both B major and B ...

And his musical vocabulary was limited; King once told Bono: “I’m no good with chords ... minor third, the upward string bend resembling nothing less than an intake of breath. This is what BB ...

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.

The sonata opens with heavy chords in B minor, but journeys through a Scherzo and dream-like Nocturne, before ending in a dazzling Finale, which starts in B minor but ends triumphantly in a B ...