The triad built on the subtonic note is called the subtonic chord. "Kite" features two modulations created through using the VII or subtonic as a pivot. Natural minor would include a tuning of 9&colon;5 for the subtonic. The song is in major and uses the subtonic chord. As a result, the seventh scale degree is a subtonic, rather than a leading-tone. The song is in A major and uses the subtonic chord. In major keys, the subtonic sometimes appears in borrowed chords. Before that, the subtonic often referred to the leading tone triad, for example. In Roman numeral analysis, the subtonic chord is symbolized by the Roman numeral "VII".