Songs to help you recognise scale degrees

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The piece of music during the outro is my "Study in 5/4 time". You can listen to it in full on my Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wKKJ... 🎼

Recognising which degree of the scale a melody is using is an invaluable skill for anyone who wants to be able to transcribe or play a song by ear. By remembering these songs as examples, hopefully you can improve your ability to identify the notes that a melody is using just by listening!

My video on the ♭6 in Stranger Things & The X Files:    • Why Stranger Things & The X-Files sound si...  
Andrew Huang's video on the Supertonic:    • Why pop music is obsessed with this one note  

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0:00 Introduction
1:18 1 (Tonic)
2:21 2 (Supertonic)
3:15 3 (Mediant)
4:08 4 (Subdominant)
4:53 5 (Dominant)
6:42 6 (Submediant)
8:42 7 (Leading Tone)
10:29 b3
11:34 b5
13:01 b6
13:54 b7 (Subtonic)
15:07 b2