The tonic minor (or parallel minor) of a flat major is a flat minor.
Each scale has a Leading Tone (which is the 7th note of the scale) and a Tonic Note (which is the first/eighth note of the scale). For the key of C major, the leading tone would be B, and the tonic note would be C.
The first note of a major or minor scale is called the tonic note. For example: for C major, the first note (or tonic note) is C; for a minor, the first note (or tonic note) is a.
Parallel major and minor keys have the same tonic pitch. Therefore, E minor is the parallel minor of E Major.
The parallel minor key is that which has the same tonic note. So, the parallel minor to F major is F minor.
The Tonic
Relative major and minor share the same key signature but a different tonic note (a tonic note is the first note of the scale or in solfege tonic is DO). For example, D flat major has five flats in it's key signature and b flat minor has 5 flats in it's key signature; therefore, D flat major and b flat minor are relative.
The term for the first and last note in a major or minor scale is the tonic.
The tonic of A is A.
That would be the relative major or minor (example: C major and A minor).
The parallel minor is a minor key with the same tonic as a major key, while the relative minor is a minor key with the same key signature as a major key.
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Tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading note, tonic again..