Diatonic chords in any major key can be labelled as I – ii – iii ... Step 10: Here’s a version that uses seventh chords and different inversions. Once you start to use borrowed chords ...

Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D major, ‘The Clock’, is in a major key and uses mainly diatonic chords: A dominant seventh is used at the end of the phrase before the first time bar.

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 ... in a minor key ends with a major chord instead ...