How to Memorize Intervals.
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2011
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This is a wonderful (I play with it for hours) tool to test your intervals.
I'm helping a friend with her test on music theory. This might help you too. But it probably won't.
Major 3: "rollin, rollin, rollin" from an old tv show called Rawhide I dono how I know that song but it its it🤣
Ohhhhhhh this is good. This one I can work with. Thanks!
@@TeagueChrystie oh when the saints go marching in for me
I use a reverse doorbell.
Ding dong.
Blues Brothers. Cage singing. Beer Bottles. Whips. Sunglasses. Mission from God.
When the saints go marching in a good major third melody
True
I use that one
"Oh Happy Day" too, I suppose.
Well I guess I can delete my comment now lol
"Oh when the saints" is a good example of a Major 3rd relationship.
Fact about major 7th that needs to resolve: Mozart's mother used to wake him by playing a major scale stopping on the 7th. Mozart then got up to play the last note of the scale (tonic).
yup, I'd be the same. Annoying little chord. My guitar teacher once played a seventh at the beginning of our lesson to see how long either of us could go without wanting to resolve it, I think we got to two minutes lol!
Minor 3 - Brahms Lullaby
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Maj 3 song: "Kumbaya" the 3 notes in that word are 1-3-5. Kum-By-Yah. 1-3-5
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Perfect 4 = "Here Comes The Bride" or "The Mexican Hat Dance"
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Perfect 5th = Twinkle Twinkle little star... 1, 1, 5, 5....
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Minor 6 = "Love Story Theme" Or wide interval (3rd n 4th notes) in "The Entertainer"
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Major 6 = "My Bonnie..." (lies over...) 1-6 = "My-Bon" or "N and B" of "NBC"
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Minor 7 = First two notes of "STAR TREK TOS"
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Major 7 - "Take On"... TAKE ON ME from AHA. 1980
another Major 3 example: Oh - When (Oh when the saints go marching in)
Really good list!
Thank you so much for this, oh my. Your personality honestly made learning this feel a lot easier
Agreeeeeed 100%! This dude is so cool and charismatic, even just talking to a camera.
Close your eyes while listening and imagine Tony stark speaking.
Amazin
May the fourth be with you.
+Dani Olivo perfect 4th? ;)
Your major 4th joke is good good but minor funnier
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂y’all silly
This guy took 14 tabs of acid before he filmed this.
+chippchipp1 His pupils are dilated while staring at a bright light. look
CRAP. This fella is simply alert, speaking fairly fast, musically intelligent and musically experienced. He is also at ease conveying what he knows. Mainly he is ALERT and ARTICULATE. Try it some day, missy chippchipp1 - when you're awake enough !!!!!
Lol read this comment before the clap and the whoop - great timing. Thanks for the great video :)
And I wouldn't have it any other way
"Cocaine is a hellofa drug." -Rick James
You're a complete boss for doing this video. Thank you.
Thanks man this is a useful intro to listening and building your own memory palace of sound. Thank you!
9:25 "If they're higher than a star wars girl the answer is something 7th" haha great quote.
I find it funny that after all your talk of Star Wars you didn't use it for the major fifth, which I thought was always the most iconic/classic example for that interval.
Btw awesome vid loved the Leia and Padme references, huge star wars fan but I never knew
I actually do use a Star Wars song for perfect fifths. The beginning to the intro to the main theme.
How did he miss that?
This is a really awesome way of memorizing intervals, it has helped tremendously, thank you! Another way I like to think of perfect fifths is that they are power chords on the guitar!
Got an interval exam this May. All i had for 4th was amazing grace and 5th was the Main theme from Star Wars,. The other star wars stuff and build me up helped a bunch. Cheers man, wish me luck.
5th: usb connection and disconnection in win xp
omg same
I'M NOT ALONE!
Great video. Helps out a lot when you think of it that way.
Loved it! Really helping me to learn some more about music and therefore, a better singer. Thank you for this!
The major third for me is always Beethoven‘s fifths symphony.
My souce for the minor sixth is the Love Story theme.
Major sixth is Mozart: „Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön“ in The Magic Flute.
The minor seventh is the first interval in Bach‘s St. John Passion „Betrachte meine Seel“.
Major seventh is tricky. I never had trouble recognising one, though. For reference, I suggest Take on Me, the beginning of the chorus ;)
Triad is sitting in a corner, crying: Maria, Westside Story.
Thank you!! really nice and helpful, you are a really kind guy who makes the world a better place!!
Pretty good overview. Here's s few I learned in HS Music Theory class:
Perfect 4th - 1st two notes of Auld Lang Syne (New Year's Theme song)
Major 5th - forget Tron, 1st two notes of THE MAIN STAR WARS THEME. (I had to laugh that with all of the other SW references, this one wasn't called out)
minor 7th - Somewhere from West Side Story (THERE'S A place for us)\
Major 7th - 1st two notes in Bali Hai from South Pacific (on the BAL & HAI)
This was entertaining and educative. Good job!
Excellent, I never thought of intervals like that, it's so helpful! Thanks.
man, finally someone who also remembers all because of star wars. BUT a PERFECT 5th can also be a star wars theme song! Think about the intro of every star wars movie with the scrolled up story! ;)
I really wish you hadn't sworn so I could've shared this with my class... Such a fun way to explain intervals :-)
I don't understand why nobody here recognizes your Genius. I mean it's pretty fucking obvious. I know nothing about music but I CAN UNDERSTAND LOGICAL PATTERNS in your music.
Fantastic! Thank you so much for your genius advices!
The first interval of the melody to Faithfully by Journey is a major 3rd.
Ooooh. That one's actually handy for me. Thanks!
'In The Mood' by Glenn Miller, too
+Teague Chrystie The first two notes of "Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In" is an example I've seen given. More fun to find one on your own, but anyways!
and "morning has broken"
Thanks man I have watched this video a few dozen time's
Very entertaining. I am a choir email liasion and I was looking for examples of "interval training". totally enjoyed listening to this. Not stalking, I promise. Thanks.
If you are playing a chord and there is a Root,5th and #5th and in the video (John Stowell) says the 5 and 5# is acting as the minor second is that correct?
This will definitely help me! Thank you!
hi can you also help on how to figure out harmonized intervals, I really have hard time figuring out major thirds and 2nds
First interval of 'When The Saints Go Marching In' = major third
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much! You are so entertaining & educational! Jus 🤗
So would beginning of Adeles 'Turning Tables' be another example of another sad song that uses minor 3rds or am I way off??
Great Video! Thank you for making it!!
Maj III, 'Oh When the Saints, Go Marching In'.
Emma Webber thank you because I can't connect the M4th to what he played.
If you have any tips for distinguishing intervals played harmonically I would love to hear about that. That is where my struggle is right now.
It was very difficult for me to listen for anything beyond the 5th major interval and non of the song references helped. Your advice on listening for 'resolves up' and 'resolves down' and the star wars references really helped. Thanks a lot! :)
Dude you're the best at doing examples on intervals. Most vids on youtube do scales and use other instruments other than pianos.
This is awesome and quite helpful, thank you for creating and posting it.
That said, clean your keyboard.
Brilliant lesson, thanks so much, it really did help.
Not a star wars fan but this was still really helpful as I just replaced the songs with ones I knew already so the fourth for me is auld lang syne and the sixth you called Padme sounds like a recurring song in the musical Chess, ultimately that's what it's about finding songs that you know and can hear the intervals of. Great idea and you're a lot of fun to listen to and watch.
I have my central exam and this video made my evening and also was very helpful. Thanks a lot for this man!
*checks to see if Courtney* ... *[is not Courtney]* ... *squints*
Just kiddin.' Glad it helped! :-P
Major 3rd is “Oh when the saints go marching in”. Also the Rocky Balboa training song.
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minor 7th is West Side Story “there’s A place for us”
Major 7th is Take on Me, or Nada Surf’s “I’m Popular”
M7 = Some Where OH-ver the rainbow....also, MaRIa...from W.S Story
m7= There's "A" place for us......(west side story)
M6= My Bonnie lies over the ocean...also, NBC
m6= Love Story
m6 is Lacrimosa! :D
Kevin Nix I think that's more for a P8 "somewhere over the rainbow "? adleast that's what I learned in school.
I've been using somewhere for my minor 7ths too!
Kevin Nix Somewhere over the rainbow is an octave
Major Third made me think of lots of classical pieces.... thats it. Thanks for the video, you cleared up some questions that I've been overthinking.
I'm not SW fan like that but I do hear it and see the scenes and those other songs I know. This helped me get a ref point, maybe I'll find my own. Thanks.
If nothing else, this gave me a bit of a new perspective through which to view composition. Thank you for sharing your knowledge :P
THAT one is really helpful for me, thanks!
Pixies, where is my mind opens with a major third.
You're welcome.
this was the most helpful thing for intervals i've ever watched
and it made me laugh
This is great I never thought of intervals this way
Excellent video. Your examples are really helpful. A minor point about pneumatics vs mnemoncis:
Pneumatics (Greek:which means "breath") is a branch of physics applied to technology that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
Mnemonics (pronouned 'knee - mon - iks') is the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory.
Major thirds: arpeggio of a major scale, rocky theme song, first two notes of "when the saints go marching in", first two notes of kumbaya
Thank you so much, my re-sit assessment is tomorrow, I have one more opportunity after that but I need a summer holiday....so I must pass this tomorrow! xx
This is funny. Very effective way of teaching this, but I hardly new any of the melodies. But the principle is there for all of us to learn intervals by melodies we do know. I have a different method, but this method is far better. Great video.
Great tips, thanks!
Cheers man, love your work! Good to see a Star Wars out there :D
First two notes of last post on the bugle for a major 5th. Ubiquitous with anything ceremonial. Impossible to forget.
Thanks for sharing tho - would never have thought to do this myself. Brilliant use pneumatics!
omg thank you so much! i could never remember the songs my teacher would suggest we use! but with all the star wars stuff it makes it so much easier!
You forgot diminished 5th :) Also I'm sure you've got one for major thirds by now since it's been about 4 years ago... but I always used the first two chords of lithium by Nirvana. It's like the epitome of major thirdness.
Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 4th movement begins with a C Major arpeggio that starts on the tonic (C) and goes up a M3 (E). This is the first thing that came to mind when thinking of an example of a M3. Give it a listen, and I hope it helps.
"Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a triad up to the octave. So, I use it for Major 3rds, and the Triad generally.
Oh this one is really helpful. Thanks.
If it helps you guys, the Augmented 4th (or Diminished 5th, however you look at it) is basically the opening notes of the Simpsons Theme Song.
Helped so much, thanks.
I have an exam tomorrow and looking for tips found this, i'm not a big Star Wars fan but some of this was actually helpful so thank you :)
btw for major 3rd i use the himn of my country, Argentina or just try to fill it with the chord up and down again like DO MI SOL MI DO.
Thanks for the video and the verve with which it is produced. But I wish it had less talk and got to the point more quickly.
I am glad I'm not the only person who uses Star Wars almost exclusively to identify intervals. Even the major and minor sixths, as you pointed out. Once I was helping someone with the minor sixth and told them to sing the opening notes to Across the Stars and they looked at me like I was nuts. Say what you will about the Star Wars prequels, but they have great music!
As a huge Star Wars nerd this video was truly helpful.
Don't know why he doesn't suggest the main theme to remember the fifth though. That's how I was taught to remember it and it was always one of the easiest to hear as a result.
Mike Towey I concur. That seems to be indeed a more elegant solution.
Thats really great that you replied, I know you are busy.
I'll keep that in mind, when I get to the compound intervals I will try that method out, I just want to get good with descending intervals first. And harmonic intervals.... Which if you don't mind I'd like to ask you another question.
How do you go about recognizing intervals that are played together? Sometimes I can hear the Major seventh, or the octave but I'm hopeless at this without some form of reference. like the intro of a song!!
i know these probably won't help many people but the riff from The Hindu Times by Oasis starts out with a major third. the same for the bass intro for Sweet Child O'Mine.
brilliant vid!! Loved how you played Iron man. ps a good major 3rd = oh when the saints. I tend to use bob marley stir it up, but it has the 'bass problem' you talk of
Major thirds begin one of my favorite melodies: The evening prayer from the opera Hansel and Gretel. "When at night I go to sleep....fourteen angels watch do keep."
I adore you! I think via popular hits/themes as well. :)
Maj 3rd; When the Saints Come Marching In!
wow that's actually really helpful thanks!
Oops,you forgot the tritone.I have my students keep an "intervalic diary".For every type of interval they look for or happen to just notice an example of,I tell them to list it under the interval page in the diary.For example a major sixth ascending =the NBC tv jingle or the beginning of John Coltranes Dear Lord.I do this myself. It helps! Thanks for your very useful video.I especially liked the major 7,minor 7 part.Useful!
HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU SO MUCH! IRON MAN! You're the best dude.
Hi, I have a couple of questions.
Does Do,re,mi,so,fa,la,ti,do help at all? I feel like I am pretty good at listening to intervals on their own, but when it comes to listening to them on records I struggle a bit. Does it help to count up Do re mi etc.etc. Even so, that doesn't count the Minors right?
And do you have any tips for recognising intervals that are even higher than an Octave? Do you know any songs to help recognise these?
What about C-F#? Its still an interval, do u hv any music for it besides the simpsons intro?
Hey that was excellent! Thanks very much for this, it will definitely help with writing more dynamic vocal melodies in relation to my chord progressions.
A couple good ones for the fourth I found are We Wish you a Merry Xmas, and Oh Christmas Tree. For the 5th I'm using Bah Bah Black Sheep. For minor sixth I'm using Love Story theme (the haunting piano), and the major 6th I'm using the traditional Lullaby (hush>now).
If anyone is interested, a Google search for Interval Song Chart Generator will bring you to a site with many songs for each. Although even they struggled to find common songs for the 7ths :p
Btw I liked your short little jingle at 10:18ish when you were messing around. The last couple chords were very Western Saloonesque :p
major 3rd - oh when the saints
I can usually tell the difference between a perfect 4th and a perfect fifth when the notes are played separately, but I'm having a hard time getting the difference when they're played played together. Any tips?
This is pretty good... now do you have a "descending" interval video????
Also in Thunderstruck- minor 7th descending in the main part for the lead guitar right after the octave.
Dude, that's fucking rad. Explained the intervals like a pro, even for non-SW people.
do you have any for descending intervals? (major sixth and major seventh in particular) thanks x
Major third interval is what Kurt Cobain uses for Something in the way, in the key of E. It's actually a quite lugubrious interval.
minor key has major intervals?
or only major with major key and minor with minor key?
Also imagining a dom. 7th chord is helpful for the minor 7th and major 7th, as well as a back- up plan to figure the interval-notes out in between if you forget the songs.
That Xmas thing "while shepherds watched their flocks" starts on a major 3rd. For what it's worth, y'know... :-)
Great video!
What about The intervals descending? Please :)
Ps: For major 6th, I remember "My way - Frank sinatra"
I use Tifas theme from Final Fantasy 7
That one is really easy for me to remember, good one!
PS: Can I suggest two easier melodies for a fourth and a perfect fifth? Beethoven's Romanza in Fa and Twingle Twingle little star. Or not?
I just thought of one for major third. "Why are" in the "why are there so many songs about rainbows" part of Rainbow Connection.
Pneumatics!