chromatic• Is it mainly diatonic or chromatic?• Substitutionnotes may be diatonic or chromatic.• In my next column I will deal with the chromaticapproach notes.• The new system was as deep and mysterious as its chromaticcode name implied.• Power, a New Zealander, plays the blues harp and the chromatic harmonica.• The movement falls into two repeatedhalves, the second having more chromaticlower parts.• It possesses a completechromatic scale between these two notes.• the chromatic scale• First we will deal with diatonic and chromatic substitution notes, which are the mainmeans of obscuringconventionalchords.
Originchromatic
(1400-1500)Greekchromatikos, from chroma“skin, color”