It's always a half step--always a half step-- seventh degree, right below, right below the tonic.

它总是一个半音级,总是如此,第七级刚好在主音下面

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You might say, "Wait a minute, I thought the tonic was down here."

你也许会说,等等,我想主音应该在这里

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It's taking me a while to lock on to that tonic.

锁定主音花了我一点时间。

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They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

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Did we do tonics? Do we know what a tonic is?

我们唱过主音吗,主音是什么

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We're working up farther and farther in these partials and we've got some of these notes right next to each other and they want to move to the stable notes so we're going to be hearing a lot of a note right above the tonic wanting to pull down to that tonic note.

我们进一步介绍了这些泛音,我们看到这些音符,彼此贴近,它们想要变成稳定的基音,所以,我们会听很多,高于基音的音符,想下行靠近这些基音

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We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

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So we can build triads on each of the members of the scale, and we said that some of these chords tend to be used a lot more than others, that the tonic is very important, the dominant is important, the sub-dominant right next to and below the dominant is important, and we're going to be talking about the VI chord today.

那么我们能够在音阶的各个音上建立三和弦，而且我们说过有些和弦将会比其它的运用更为普遍，基音，I和弦，属音，V和弦，都很重要，紧靠属音的下属音也很重要，我们今天就要讲讲VI和弦。

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