Tendency

Help understanding tendency tones

Help understanding tendency tones
  1. What's a tendency tone?
  2. Which notes in the V7 chord are tendency tones?
  3. Is 4 a tendency tone?

What's a tendency tone?

noun. a tone that is harmonically or melodically unstable and tends naturally to resolve itself either upward or downward.

Which notes in the V7 chord are tendency tones?

The ROOT, the 3RD, the 5TH and the 7TH. The V7 chord contains 2 TENDENCY TONES, that together create a TRITONE: 1-The 3rd of this chord (scale degree 7) wants to resolve UP to scale degree 1.

Is 4 a tendency tone?

The tonic – the first note of the scale – is the most stable tone, followed by scale degrees 3 and 5. Tendency tones and active tones are synonymous. These are the other scale degrees: 2, 4, 6 and 7. Scale degrees 2, 4 and 6 resolve downward: Scale degree 2 “wants” to resolve to 1; 4 wants to resolve to 3, and 6 to 5.

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