Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Notice how these names have been derived:

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Dominant – five notes UP from the tonic,

counting the tonic as 1.

Second note in importance after the tonic.

Subdominant – note below the dominant.

(Also five notes DOWN from the tonic.)

1 2 3 4 5

4 5 6 7 8

Submediant – three notes DOWN from the tonic,

counting the tonic as the eighth note of the scale.

Mediant – three notes UP from the tonic,

midway between the tonic and dominant

6 7 8

1 2 3

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Leading tone – the seventh note of the

scale, LEADS to the tonic.

Supertonic – note ABOVE the tonic.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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