Waching daily Apr 25 2018

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I got a question for you

What does this hood know about opportunity?

Do you really think a community that defines struggle, get a free pass?

I'll tell you what we know.

We know the heart of Commitment.

The face of Resilience.

We've wiped the tears of Courage.

In fact … we see it every day.

That's what makes us.

That's our DNA.

We climb higher

We cross borders

We go beyond

Here's another thing we know,

If you haven't been to the So Bronx, where have you been?

You see, it's where lives are transformed.

It's where we've been busy changin' the world.

Because, when it comes to Opportunity, we leave our mark in history.

Our past has made us stronger.

It's about where we're from and where we're going.

We are NYC.

Better yet We are the South Bronx.

Community is our middle name

Where we don't just dream the American Dream We embody it.

We are America

This is Hostos

And Opportunity is what you get.

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What Is a Leading Tone? - Duration: 2:11.

A leading tone is the seventh scale degree in any major scale.

We call it "leading" because our ears expect that note to

resolve one semitone step up to the root.

For instance, in the key of C major, the leading tone is a seventh scale degree B.

So we go 1-2-3-4-5-6-7...

and then our ears really, really want to hear it go

the rest of the way up to 8.

Our emotions are totally powerless in the face of the strength of that leading tone.

Let's say we're in the key of F major,

our V chord would be a C major chord, which has the

notes, C, E, and G.

That E note is our leading tone, yearning to land on an F,

one semitone step higher.

This relationship is the same within any major scale.

Our V chord always has a leading tone for its major third and it always leads our

ears to expect at I chord afterward.

If we want to go even deeper, we soon

realize that every I chord is also a V chord in a different scale.

That F major chord we landed on, that's the V chord in the key of B flat major,

Because F is the fifth scale degree of the B flat major scale.

We can keep going ad infinitum here,

pretty soon we arrive back where we started.

This is known as the circle of fifths,

or in this case, fourths, since we're going up a fourth to

each new root note.

There are a lot of different ideas as to why V to I is so important in

Western music. The notes C and G or any two notes that are 1/5 apart from each other

share a lot of overtones in common, but whatever the reason is, we organized

our whole harmonic tradition around this idea of five creating tension

and one resolving it. You know 14th century madrigals all the

way through to some pop song that was written last week.

It's really a remarkably cohesive bed of traditional harmony.