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5.39Your harmonic vocabulary so far
In C major you now know:
Tonic
C, Am, Em
Predominant
Dm, F
Dominant
G, G7, B°
That is already enough to construct a surprising amount of music.
And now the giant chord chart should look less like:
dozens of independent chord names
and more like:
groups of chords creating routes between stability and tension.