Bars 17-18 The solo starts here, with some string bends, speedy slurs and slides, all designed to highlight the chromatic nature of the scale. This is followed by an ascending 16th-note triplet ...

So what is a chromatic mediant, anyway? In music theory, diatonic means ‘in the key’, while chromatic means ‘not in the key’. So if you have the scale of C major, which contains the notes C, D, E, F, ...