Do I Know the Leading Tone?

Finishing on the leading tone really does feel unresolved and motivates us to continue listening. This melodic phrase is an isolatable unit, but we can feel that it's also a part of a whole. The dominant chord that we play with the B begs for a resolution just like the leading tone it shares the beat with. We start with a tonic, then the super tonic is the next, the mediant? Yep. Fourth. Now if the fourth doesn't come to you, look at the fifth, maybe that will help you remember. Fifth is the dominant, so the fourth is the subdominant. Excellent. Sixth and seventh had something to do with the mediant