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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop to

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shore Brought to you by the figured base The disfigured

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base was too busy hiding composing music underneath an opera

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house Teo really Bring it Okay Here's our question in

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the key of f major what would the figured base

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symbol above be realized As and here are potential answers

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minor One six nine two six five major Forcing my

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maid your five Okay first off let's identify that note

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We know by its position on the staff that it's

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obviously Well hang on a second Is that the tenor

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clef We're looking at a long time No see man

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how are the kids anyway In tenor clef the note

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in our question is an e and if it's been

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a while since you've seen our good old buddy tenor

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clef here's a quick refresher the clef frames the c

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line so whichever line the little boxy part of the

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cliffs around always marks the notes See So if the

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line being framed as c weaken simply count down to

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the note in question to figure out what it is

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and then counting Great So we know that the bottom

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of this figured base is an e we know that

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we're in tenor clef we know we're in f major

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and we know that every answer has six five tagged

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onto the end which indicates a seventh chord in first

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inversion We also know why the caged bird sings fiercely

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Maya angelou gave us the inside scoop at a dinner

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party once anyway if we spell out our seventh chord

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starting on e wi get e g b flat and

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c but since we're in first inversion we know that

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e is not the root of the chord C is

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to visualize what this court would look like in route

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position we can last so that c down to the

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bottom and well yee hah alright see is the fifth

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above half in the key of f major making the

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correct answer here D major five six five oh and

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word to the wise Don't try to lasso anything else 00:02:01.436 --> [endTime] in music Our orchestra conductor still hasn't forgiven us

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