Step 4: A chromatic mediant is a iii or vi chord that’s been altered in one of two ways. Firstly, it may have been made major when it should be minor. For instance, in the key of C major, we can take ...

Step 5: We’ll make the next chord a minor one - C minor. Taking C as our root note, we count up an interval of three semitones (a minor third), landing on E. From there, we go up a further four ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which ...