Re: Question re degrees of the scale (and my intro to this group)

"Dylan" <DDawson72@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> I have a question, or two, below.

1.  The names dominant/subdominant etc are symmetric about the tonic (the 
subdominant is as far below it as the dominant is above it) etc. (You have

to count in steps, in general, rather than exact intervals).

2.  You can play a scale (eg of C) starting on any note.   You don't have
to 
start on the tonic.    Indeed, it rapidly gets very boring when you 
improvise using notes in step if you always start on the root of the 
accompanying chord.    Scales are only scales - finger exercises.  They
have 
little other significance.    Music in a given key is based on the 
collection of notes in the key (as well as those outside it) and only
rarely 
(outside of the "The Sound of Music" <g>) does a passage go "doh re mi fah

soh lah ti doh".

Dave
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