Under The Sun Studios - Music Instruction in Walnut Creek, Ca proudly presents the beginnings of what will hopefully be a comprehensive online music dictionary, with terms both modern and classical.

• Diatonic Scale

  In music theory, a diatonic scale is a scale whose notes are built on the natuUnder The Sun Studios - staff positions of lines and spaces, with no accidentals, with or without a key signature. All the notes are separated by whole steps except for 2.  Common examples are the Major scale, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, and NatuUnder The Sun Studios - Minor.

• Neck

  The neck is the part of many string instruments that projects from the body and is the base of the fingerboard (on guitars and other fretted instruments, like the banjo, mandolin, and ukelele, this is referred to as the fretboard,) where the fingers are placed to stop or fret the strings at different pitches. Guitars, lutes, the violin family, and the mandolin family are examples of instruments which have necks.

• Rhythm

  Rhythm is the organization of music in respect to time or the regular occurrence of beats. Basically, the position of the the note's beginning and the duration of the note.