Major - Happy, bright sounding, follows diatonic scale, Minor - Sad sinister sounding, 3rd note flattened, Dominant - 5th note of the scale, Relative Minor / Major - relative keys that have the same key signature e.g. C major & A Minor (relative minor), Pentatonic - Scale with 5 notes (used in Toto: Africa), Diatonic - Notes within the key (no extra chromatic notes added), Tonic - 1st note of the scale e.g. the tonic note of C major is C, Subdominant - 4th note of the scale, Perfect Cadence - Chords V to I, Imperfect Cadence - Chords I to V, Plagal Cadence - Chords IV to I, Interrupted Cadence - Chords V to VI, Drone - A held or repeated chord (usually a fifth), Pedal - Sustained single note, typically in the bass, Dissonance - Clashing notes, Power Chords - Made up of 2 different notes - usually the root and the 5th,

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