Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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One root note can leave a lot of room for color.

Chris Buono builds this funk riff in F using perfect fourths and four compact shapes across the neck.

The harmony never fully settles into major, minor, or dominant. Instead, the shapes suggest all three, giving the riff an open sound that can move in several directions without changing the root.

That’s quartal harmony doing the work.

Listen for how each of the four zones adds a different piece to the phrase, then helps bring it back around.

Explore Chris Buono’s lessons on TrueFire:
truefire.com/educators/chris-buono/e4184

Do you hear this riff as major, minor, dominant, or somewhere in between?

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