The musical cycle contains seven notes, popularly sung to do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti. There is, however, an eighth note – do. The eighth is the same as the first, except it is sung one octave higher.

He plays a steady eighth-note pattern bouncing around the root, 5th, 4th, and 7th relative to the chord. The rolling ascending and descending bass line helps the riff repeat seamlessly.