Songs that will help you identify ascending intervals
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Being able to recogise intervals when listening to a melody is incredibly valuable. A great way to anchor your perception of each interval is to use a famous song to remember how they sound, to remember the particular sound of each interval. So today I will give you at least one famous melody for the twelve intervals within the octave and one beyond the octave!
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0:00 Introduction
1:52 Minor 2nd
2:47 Major 2nd
3:39 Minor 3rd
4:22 Major 3rd
5:34 Perfect 4th
6:03 Tritone
8:08 ToneGym
8:55 Perfect 5th
10:02 Minor 6th
11:54 Major 6th
12:52 Minor 7th
14:16 Major 7th
15:35 Octave
16:48 Intervals beyond the octave
19:02 Minor 9th
20:42 Outro
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great video. brilliantly informative.. if I might add some constructive criticism .. the position of the mic is very distracting. maybe put it besides the piano or record with two cameras: one focused on your hands and one on your face .. otherwise .. perfect video
@@a_witcher94 "brilliantly informative" đ€Łđ you lot are weird!
@@Philrc awww thanks
Fun fact: If you play the lowest and highest notes on a full-size piano, that interval is a Minor 52nd!
Wow.
(Happily throws fact onto the massive pile of fun facts in my brain)
And this particular interval can be heard in every primary school music lesson đ
It's more fun than a fact though
That is a fun fact. Thank you.
Imagine taking a music theory exam and hearing someone singing "all around me are familiar faces" very quietly
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Imagine if they started playing intervals on slap bass or sax instead.
(Too much 80s disparagement in this video... I want to see David present the next one on keytar - embrace the cheese!)
@@george474747 that would be interesting to see
@@DavidBennettPiano hello there I love your videos please keep on doing them thanks keizo tim or @keizotim
Yeah, or any exam would be great.
1:52 Minor 2nd - Jaws / Fur Elise
2:47 Major 2nd - Halo Theme/ Frere Jacques / Happy Birthday
3:39 Minor 3rd - Pure Imagination/ Mad World (All around me are familiar faces)
4:22 Major 3rd - Subway Surfer / Wipe Wipe Wipe It Down Wipe /(descending) Golden Wind
5:34 Perfect 4th - Amazing Grace
6:03 Tritone - Regular Show / The Simpsons
8:55 Perfect 5th - Star Wars
10:02 Minor 6th - The Entertainer / (descending) Love Story
11:54 Major 6th - Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2
12:52 Minor 7th - Can't Stop / Somewhere
14:16 Major 7th - Take On Me
15:35 Octave - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
16:48 Intervals beyond the octave
19:02 Minor 9th - Killing in The Name
Thanks
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Don't know how you could leave out "Can't Stop" by RHCP for Minor 7th example. It's a much more recognisable and iconic song than Somewhere from some movie from the 60s (or was it a play) most people never heard of. The moment I hear E followed by D, i instantly hear Frusciante's intro in my head and just want to resolve it up to the E an octave up. But maybe that's just a guitarist in me talking.
@@BL00DYME55 Thanks for the suggestion, I was struggling to find one for Minor 7th
Thanks!
Nice simple examples. As a music teacher, Iâd love to see your examples for descending intervals, we only ever do ascending choices.
Yeah, I always watch that, to make sure I don't skimp on the descending. For minor third and major 2nd, I use the line from Somewhere over the Rainbow, 'if happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow'
But I also try to hear the inversion inside the interval. So if I hear a minor third, I want to hear the major 6th at the same time.
Radiohead - The National Anthem
has descending maj3 min3 and maj2 all in the same riff!
fun fact: Gangsta Rap - Nigga Nigga Nigga is a rather astute example of OP's point.
David uses YYZ by Rush as an example of a tritone interval. This is actually a descending interval, although he used it as ascending.
fun fact: you can use Somewhere Over The Rainbow to identify the octave (some-where), the major sixth (way-up), *and* the minor sixth (there's-a).
Nice! You can also use various Star Wars tunes to identify most of these intervals. The Force theme for a perfect 4th, Han and Leia's theme for a major 6th, The Emperor's theme for a minor 3rd, and the Love theme from AOTC for a minor 6th. :)
And minor 7th - 'over'
@@EmpiricalPragmatist I always use these too! I just didn't know what the actual themes were called lol
@@EmpiricalPragmatist also, the cantina band is really useful for perfect 4ths
Minor Third: âSomeday Iâll wish upon a starâ
Fun fact: A perfect fifth sounds similar to an octave because when played in produces an octave undertone or subharmonic of the fundamental note.
Science is cool đ€
1-5 => power chord, because science :)
Finally, a logical explanation! Thanks
@@318h7 It's 2 over 3. If you play the rhythm with your hands, it's obvious - the frequencies "sync up" on every other oscilliation of the lowest. So the "synced" oscilliations are at half the frequency of the lowest note, one octave below. More dissonant intervals will create lower pitch undertones for this reason, i.e. the longer the time between each synced oscilliation, the lower the note produced. Sorry about the non-technical language, these are not concepts I have been taught.
@@polyphony250 that sounds correct, and that's the reason there is a distinct throbbing in a minor 2nd or, stronger still, in a just slightly out-of-tune unison
"Take on Me" is brilliant. I always recognize the major seventh simply by its proximity to the octave, but that's a really great example that I had never thought of.
Some songs that I use:
m3 - Seven Nation Army, Greensleeves
M3 - Oh When the Saints
P4 - Bridal Chorus ("Here comes the bride")
Tritone - Maria (West Side Story)
P5: Twinkle Twinkle
M6: Jingle Bells ("Dashing through the snow"), My Bonnie
Greemsleeves
i was SURE you were gonna do Dr Who for the minor 9th
Same here.
Same
'Need to' by Korn
1:13 I thought he was going into Shine On You Crazy Diamond
rage all the way
Alright so... here's what I use:
Minor 2nd up & down: Eyes Wide Shut piano thing
Major 2nd up: Happy Birthday
Major 2nd down: Yesterday (Beatles)
Minor 3rd up: Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
Minor 3rd down: Hey Jude (Beatles)
Major 3rd up: Oh, When the Saints
Major 3rd down: Big Ben chimes or Summertime (Gerschwin)
Perfect 4th up: Amazing Grace
Perfect 4th down: Under Pressure bassline (Queen)
Tritone up: The Simpsons
Tritone down: Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Perfect fifth up: Star Wars theme
Perfect fifth down: Game of Thrones or Zelda themes
Minor 6th up: In my life intro(Beatles)
Minor 6th down: Love Story theme
Major 6th up: Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead)
Major 6th down: Il Ătait un Petit Navire
Minor 7th up: Original Star Trek Theme
Minor 7th down: Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock)
Major 7th up & down: Popular guitar intro (Nada Surf)
Octave up: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Octave down: Bulls on Parade (RATM)
Minor 9th up: Killing in the Name Bass thing (RATM)
And that's about it...
Good video!
If you really wanna be able to detect major 10ths, a great song for that is VCR by The XX
Our hero
Don't get him started on Yesterday!!
I don't get the min6 reference to in my life. Otherwise, great list.
Copy, paste. Thanks!
I've been playing guitar (badly, but I enjoyed it), for the past thirty years. Watched hundreds if not thousands of of videos. Got a basic understanding of music. Stumbled on your website and in six months I have improved a thousand fold. Thank you,your a true breathe of fresh air. Keep up the good work.
best thing I can say is learn C maj scale and how to hear these intervals. C Maj forms the foundation for all the other modes and makes it VERY easy to learn them while knowing the intervals by ear will let you more easily ear learn songs or when writing, allow you to know how to get the right feel or emotion for something you want to play
I live in central Europe, in the Czech Republic and because of that, the major 6 interval actually to me sounds perfectly stable and consonant. It is often used in our folk songs, when there's more then one voice. The voices often go in major (or minor) thirds and major sixths, and often without "resolving" to e.g. a P.5. at the end of a song, and it's been like that for centuries. It's quite interesting to note, because compared to this, christian chant music (gregorian chants, etc.) in history uses almost exlusively the "cleanest", most stable intervals - the octave the P5 and the P4 (with occasionally using thirds).
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@@nakejtypek1829 Hej, prakticky kaĆŸdĂĄ druhĂĄ lidovka, Äi jejĂ sborovĂĄ Ășprava (od dÄtstvĂ zpĂvĂĄm ve sboru, takĆŸe toho mĂĄm naposlouchanĂ©ho hodnÄ). Tzv. lidovĂœ dvojhlas je, kdyĆŸ se k pĆŻvodnĂmu hlasu soubÄĆŸnÄ zpĂvajĂ tercie nebo sexty, Äili to mĂĄ dokonce i nĂĄzev. Jako pĆĂklad uvedu napĆ. Nepi Jano, nebo Chodila MaryĆĄka.
Interesting. Ca you name some exemplary songs that I can listen to on CZcams?
thanks
The chorus of "Into the Unknown" actually uses an 11th! It's the interval the third time she sings "into the unknown" and is part of what makes the song feel so epic and dangerous.
I love 7th's,9th's and 11ths
Whoa, you're right. I thought that was a tenth, but she goes all the way up to the upper 4th. Neato.
So THAT'S why I love singing it so much
As a subnautica fan I was so confused what you were on about. Then I realised youâre speaking about a song from Frozen
In the BTS, the song authors specifically cite the unusual size of the interval as what gives the melody its emotional sense of breaking free from what's traditional or comfortable.
"Into the Unknown" from Frozen features intervals of an octave, 9th, 10th, and even an 11th in its masterful chorus. In the BTS, the song authors specifically cite the unusual size of the interval as what gives the melody its emotional sense of breaking free from what's traditional or comfortable.
The wider interval is right at the end, sung by Aurora
I was wondering why I loved that track so much! It's beautiful, even though I don't remember much else about the movie.
You don't listen to opera much do you?
@@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 you can be less pretentious. Weirdo
@@gamechimp869 Weird and pretentious for the basic knowledge that people can sing more than a fifth? Also big talk coming from an industry that considers Lloyd Webber "beneath them".
I use "Here Comes the Bride" to identify a perfect fourth. I think of the first two notes of "Maria" (from "West Side Story") to identify a tritone. I am only at the beginning of this video but I'm already finding it helpful and kinda fun. Thanks!
I always use Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik. I simply cannot NOT hear it.
Yes! I've always, always used "Maria" as the example of a tritone -- the West Side Story score is actually spilling over with tritones, all over the place -- and I was shocked it wasn't mentioned. :)
I use the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
@@namibia584 Good one! Several perfect fourths in a row!
@@snicky58 There's also "Take off Ya Hoser."
With the string sound you had on the minor 7th, I was sure you were about to break into "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac. I don't know if it's technically an interval, but those are the notes they hit most hard in the intro so it functions as an interval.
same here
I hear Josie!
I heard The Chain too!
Same!
It was so obviously The Chain. Even the sound he had on the synthesizer sounded just like it. Lol
Minor 3rd
Me: Ah yes, Crazy Frog
David: Mad World
Me: That works too
This is so helpful
Axe f
Definitely, I heard Axel F then he starts playing Mad World!
lmao, this is now my reference point
When he started, I thought Send in the Clowns lol. Heard that ad nauseam growing up.
Ad: "Regardless of what you might think, interval exercises are ineffective. It's not just my opinio-*skipped*"
David: "This video is sponsored by ToneGym. Being able to identify an interval by ear..."
*Laughed so hard*
Same xD
Lol what's there reasoning even why they are inefective?
Actually the ad made me think and I listened to it to its end. But it didnât explain why itâs ineffective. Maybe learning to recognize which note in the scale weâre listening to is more effective than learning intervals. I donât know.
@@PedroMachadoPT Donât do anything, ever, because itâs hard for someone.
@@error50012 Go watch the video âwhy you donât want perfect pitchâ by adam neely, itâs quite interesting. Basically, interval training is not ineffective, but there are other skills that you should be training as well.
I sat through all of this and was able to pay attention the whole time which is rare so thank you for making this!
Thanks so much for this. I was doing an interval training app and felt really stuck just trying to listen to the tones without mental associations. Now I hear Jaws and Letâs Dance and I immediately started improving. I am doing to to try and get better at music in order to express myself, so you really helped me with that. thank you.
I wish people also showed songs where the interval descends rather than ascends
That song from Love Story is perfect for a minor 6th down, for instance.
I thought the same. Off the top of my head, there is Fur Elise and Yesterday for descending minor and major seconds respectively.
@@deyama2012 _Yesterday_ begins with three notes on the same pitch. Listen to the Beatles original.
@@JiveDadson yes but I think he does it in the 2nd verse. Good observation though
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones. Perfect fifth down.
Now I know about the tritone, I appreciate the irony of The Simpsons welcoming us with a heavenly choir and background using such a devillish sounding musical arrangement.
I find a lot of comedic / wacky music will lean on those tense moments to resolve.
The Simpson's and "Maria" from WestvSide Story are strange identical twins.
David, can you do a video analyzing this theme song? Please!!?! I tried to analyze it once as a youth and I gave up. All I remember is that it's in Lydian.
***Reverend Lovejoy has left the chat***
Danny Elfman knew what he was doing
I think I found my perfect teacher! Honestly, you make learning what can be a pretty dry subject such fun. There's something about the way you teach and make your videos that really clicks for me. Thank you!
One of the more important lessons for any musician. Good work!
Was mentally preparing to hear you talking about the tritone being the Devil's chord, and then you mentioned Neely, and I was unreasonably happy about that.
@@JimmyTulip1 it's not well known?
6:31 *BULLSHITE~*
@@JimmyTulip1 It's a not a myth... Adam Neely is a woke lefty that lies about shit in his vids (see: White Supremacy vid).
@@VanessaHolguin It is a myth. You are right about Adam being a woke lefty but that doesnt make everything he says false.
@@informant09 It *was* banned. Just because a #4th existed in pieces from that period doesn't mean it wasn't still thought of as the devil's interval and banned by the church.
THAT is the lie. Sure it existed. Yes it was used. To pretend the church didn't ban it in many places in Europe is an outright denial of reality (but that's what woke leftist's do... try to change word meaning, history [Virginia statues say hello], and of course... minimize anything church related).
An example using both the octave and the tritone is Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath".
E - E - A#
So maybe this is the Devil's work after all ! (jk)
Also, Maj 6th: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean ( first two notes ).
Black Orpheus by BonfĂĄ
YES THIS IS WHAT I DO TOO
I learned it with My Bonnie....
53 years ago. I still remember that lesson. A light went on
Thank you... I don't know "Holly and the Ivy". I'm american, maybe it isn't as big here for xmas stuff?
The downside of this: you then have My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean stuck in your head for the next five fucking hours ;)
I was genuinely taken back when the Minor 3rd wasn't Axel F. It seems so perfect to me, since it plays the A, the C, and then the A twice more. Really vivid sound. And my go-to for the perfect fifth is Something In The Way by Nirvana. The opening is just Kurt Cobain playing the very stripped back A5 and F5
I thought it would be Clair de Lune
@@GoatCat_ but...
@@elegantwaffle257 I see what you mean. Itâs more of a chord than an interval
minor 3rd is the first 2 notes of the blues scale, so there's sooooo many examples in blues inspired genres like rock'n'roll, later rock, and rock-inspired music in general. smoke on the water, whole lotta love, are you gonna be my girl, you spin me round (chorus), muse - psycho, even flippin wannabe by spice girls. too many to name
You are a most intelligent young sage. I am very well entertained by your delivery. Kudos fellow musician/musicologist. I have been teaching for decades and you have got the gift! The theory mystery continues...
David's Examples:
Minor 2nd: Jaws Theme - John Williams
Major 2nd: FrĂšre Jacques - traditional
Minor 3rd: Mad World - Tears for Fears (But it Really should have been Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer)
Major 3rd: Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder / Let's Dance - David Bowie
Perfect 4th: Summer Nights - from Grease
Tritone: YYZ - Rush / The Simpsons Theme - Danny Elfman
Perfect 5th: Star Wars Title Crawl Theme - John Williams / ET Theme - John Williams
Minor 6th: Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty / The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Major 6th: The Holly and the Ivy (Christmas song) - traditional
Minor 7th: Somewhere - Leonard Bernstein, from West Side Story / Bass from Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Major 7th: Take on Me - A-ha
Octave: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - from The Wizard of Oz
Minor 9th: Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
Yeah, I really thought he was going to go with Axel F based on the notes he played for the minor 3rd.
Major 6th: the first verse of Jingle Bells at the word "dashing".
@@woutere Good one. âOâer theâ (fields we go).
The Shinsâ James Mercer sings some very wide intervals, like in the song Phantom Limb
I was thinking Axel F too
Such a great reference tool. I remember learning similar techniques in choir. We never learned the minor intervals just the major, though I can always recognize minor thirds. We were taught the âdoorbellâ for major thirds and the song âTapsâ for major fourths.
John Williams REALLY likes his major fifths. The Superman Theme also uses that.
I came here to see if anyone else uses doorbell and Superman!
How about Come As You Are by Nirvana for a Perfect 4th?
In choir I learned the rising major sixth is My Bo(nnie Lies Over the Ocean.) And âDo, a deer, a female deerâ gives both rising and falling major thirds. Both ones Iâve never forgotten. I like most of his examples, though a few were too recent for me.
I was wondering if anybody else would bring up Superman too. :) Though I usually use it to remember how the major 7th goes.
Ha, we used "Here Comes the Bride" for perfect fourths. And then my music professor in college said to be cautious using that one, since it's Sol->Do, not Do->Fa. Still works, but it's a different vibe.
For our 4ths in choir our teacher uses "here come the bride", specifically the "here comes" part! Neat to see other choirs do this too. Also when we were doing a chromatic scale in one of our songs she used the Jaws theme.
I am just starting with ear training. I was already getting frustrated with telling if it is a 2m or a 2M interval. The easiest case in my training software. I watched only 3:34 min of the video and I decided to try out those two songs. I worked like a charm. I can now tell the difference between a 2m and a 2M intervals in my training software. Thanks !
Great!!
Im so happy i have found this. Ive been in music scho for 8 years and i never knew how to get rhese right but now i do. I am preparing for audicions for music conservatory and i really needed this. Thank you very much!
The way I remember a perfect 5th is "someBODY", thats all I need
Thanks, you have now ruined Star Wars for me forever.
Oh yeah? WHEN I WAS is a Perfect 4th. Fuck any of your other songs you claim on that interval, homie.
Comment of the year here, folks
This is also my go to example for a pickup beat
fuck you I love it xD
Not sure if any other commenters mentioned this, but the YYZ âvampâ you brought up for the Tritone is actually the letters YYZ in Morse code. The dots are the tonic and the dashes are the tritone. As always, great video and thanks for being an awesome music theory resource!!
I love Morse code in music! Another example is the Mission Impossible riff which is based on the Morse for "M.I."
Rats! I was coming here to say that. I snoozed, I loozed. :-D
@@DavidBennettPiano ooh nice! Future video topic maybe??
But Jeff, what about the airport?
@@DavidBennettPiano The best example I know is "Waves" by the french singer Camille. The background vocals literally sing "dot" and "dash" spelling out "show me the waves". czcams.com/video/S0PMZg8lZ-M/video.html
I have been trying to get my head around the sound of intervals forever. This is the first time I had something to hook on. Thank you!
I grew up loving Movie Soundtracks and often piddle with them for fun. I was leaving intervals just as you show and it has helped me significantly. Thanks
Min 7th is also Star Trek, the tv show theme ( 1st two notes ).
That's the one I hear. When he added the second example and said he grew up with it, I thought for sure Star Trek was coming out. heh
@@jeremyowens3319 That's funny, when I heard the sound he chose I immediately thought of The Chain
especially since that sounds almost EXACTLY like Lindsey's(sp?) guitar.
@@S0loChr1st0 interesting
Nah. With that tone he had its immediately Josie by Steely Dan
I'm on (the older) team Axel F for a Minor 3rd. Coming up in the 80's it was unavoidable!
That one has a bunch of nice clean intervals both up and down, which was a definite help while learning theory 35+ years ago.
As soon as I heard it I started singing it and got distracted
-"Smoke on the Water" for m3-
Ditto! I also immediately thought of Top Gun for the perfect 5th, and given how the other two examples were movies from 1977 & 1982, I thought for sure he'd incorporate it.
Oh well, he's a young one. ;)
No joke, that's what first came to mind for me.
Iâve seen a few of your videos âŠ. Iâm quickly becoming a fan and enjoying the idea that thereâs lots more to see and learn.
Tenths are great. I love them and I use them. A guitar teacher of mine, Serge Lazarevitch, taught us that tenths somehow almost sound like a chord, rather than just an interval. I can hear what he meant when I use them. Bach wrote fantastic things in tenths, as did so many other classical composers, but those amazing structures can also be found in Paul McCartney's Beatles classic, Blackbird. I also love hearing it in the Foo Fighters' Walking After You. It's a bit of a magical chord-like interval, waiting to be needed as the right addition to the song, or be the basis for a song. Rocking regards to all, BBH
I'd love to see a companion video where you show some examples of descending intervals. (Since audiating backwards is hard.)
Good idea. Has one up now
minor 6th, "Love Story" theme, first two notes
18:54 Widest vocal interval I've found: P11 up (G3 to C5), Sleeping with Sirens - If You Can't Hang pre-chorus: "There's **the door / Aah**"
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"Stupid slap bass"... oh no, you've awoken Davie
to be fair, that keyboard did have a terrible slap bass sound
NOT EPIC
@@ISuperI
I'm calling the Police.
SLAP!
Keyboard vs bass battle!
This lesson made me smile the whole way through in how crystalized intervals in my mind.
You teach intervals like I was taught in music theory in the early 80s. Association is the best. The Tri-Tone also sounds like scenes in Apocalypse Now. Even your keyboard sounded exactly like that. Nice job!
Back in the 60's my Mom - a music teacher - taught me intervals with songs - I learned the major 6'th as the first two notes of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. We mostly had to use different songs back then - lol
Can you tell me the si gs she used? I donât know many of the the songs heâs using
Same. Also the Wedding March for perfect 4th.
This is how I learned in the 1980s. The major 7th was âSomewhereâ from
West Side Story.
This might be one of the MOST USEFUL music-related CZcams videos I have ever come across. It is pitch perfect (if you'll excuse the pun!) Also fantastic thumbnail! Will be coming back to this again and again when composing, transcribing, recording... and will probably share this with my friends for all eternity hahhaha. P.S. Radiohead's new song If You Say The Word starts with a major third!! (Eb to G, in the key of C minor)
Thank you!!!
Totally agree!
This is a common well known technique for ear training. There's a list online by Earmaster on ascending and descending intervals with you tube URLs.
@@Philrc you know what's also common, tools like you..
@@miller13ico *yawn* sure kiddy. Some people can't accept information. Like you. They prefer to remain stupid
You're a great teacher and very knowledgeable that's why I subscribed. Great info for us musicians and explained in a very informative and concise way. I know plenty of theory but I always learn something more I can use from you. Keep it up!
This unlocked something in my mind! Thank you so much
As you were talking about Mad World, you said, "it's going.." and my daughter just blurts out "going nowhere!" and I didn't even know that she knew that song. It was an awesome moment. Thank you for that.
As soon as you played the minor seventh, I thought âJosieâ by Steely Dan. Thanks again!
So did I.
Me too!!! That also kind of shows my age!!!
Oh good it wasn't just me.
Ditto! love that song
I couldn't think of the name, but as soon as I heard it I was like "That's a Steely Dan song"
For a minor 6th, I use "Across the Stars" by John Williams. It's Padme and Anakins love theme from the Star Wars Prequels and it's one of my favorites from that trilogy.
Great vid! Thanks! (I'd studied intervals back in University days, but had forgotten the reference songs for some of them.) This vid was helpful and I appreciate the way you articulate the ideas presented.
Ah! How times have changed! When I was in music school this is how we learned them: m2- train sound, M2- beginning of M scale, m3- Brahms Lullaby, M3 From the Halls of Montezuma, P4- Here Comes the Bride, Aug4- Maria(West Side Story) P5-Twinkle Twinkle, m6 Where Do I Begin? (Love Story) M6 My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean or the NBC logo, m7 - There's a Place for Us (West Side Story) M7- Bali Hai (South Pacific). However, for teaching purposes now, new examples would be needed for those who did not grow up with those musicals. Thank you!
Interesting; I also thought of the NBC jingle, though I'm only 33.
LOL these are the songs I use to this day⊠M7 Bali Hai is not familiar to me but Take on Me isđ this is a good video
@@tammyrobinson6409 czcams.com/video/81NROmUb7o0/video.html the Bali Hai interval is at 42 seconds.
@@jaroslaval9159 thank you⊠I can hear the M7 interval perfectly
@@tammyrobinson6409 Great!
I was so convinced you'd go for 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac for the minor 7th. The sound matches so well, and it's in the same key too.
From the instrument selection i though that was he he was going too.
Yeah same tbh
i literally just commented the same thing lol
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this is what we did in HS music theory and I still remember those lessons. Learning intervals like this is amazing ear training.
I grew up being able to do this and I thought it was just something everyone could do. Wow I never knew that it was valued in any way
I really appreciate that you went to the effort of naming the intervals in the font and style of the movie poster. That visual cue really helps with my memory
wait i actually really needed this im taking a music theory exam in december and recognizing intervals is part of it so thank you so much â€ïžâ€ïž
Great!!
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I'm really surprised your teachers haven't suggested this technique
@@Philrc she has i'd just rather learn about it in video form
@@nat91307 that's silly you don't do ear training in "video form" . This just wants you to pay for something you can do for free.
The only way to practice recognising intervals is to do it, not listen to videos
This is the best channel I have come across for teaching the piano. I don't know what it is but I seem to learn from this as oppose to other channels I have look at.
This is just pure genius and beautiful... Thanks David
Great video! I'd love to see a sequel where intervals are compared in ascending and descending forms. Even good musicians are sometimes thrown when they hear an interval moving in the opposite direction to the example they've memorized.
^ This! Invaluable sequel
Indeed
It's interesting to me that minor thirds sound more tense going up (Mad World, Greensleeves), and more resolved coming down (Hey Jude, the Star Spangled Banner), while major thirds sound more consonant going up (When the Saints come Marching in, Kumbaya) and more dissonant coming down (Beethoven's 5th, Imperial March).
This has everything to do with the function of the interval within the chord. (Hey Jude is the distance beteeen 5 and 3 of the major chord). This immediately showcases the risk of this method. Be aware of the context.
Also Brahms lullaby is a minor third (I think). Kinda funny
Very wise response. Thank you, Bekahoot. I agree.
I think VCR by The xx uses a major 10th interval. It immediately came to mind when you played it. Which was super cool because I've never recognized that sort of thing before now! Thanks for the video.
Just brilliant, David. Thank you so much!!!! Cheers, .. Brian.
18:52 I believe "Defying Gravity" from the movie "Wicked" has a major 11th in it, between the words "the rules" near the start, in "I'm tired of playing by *the rules* of someone else's game".
defying gravity also has a massive leap at the end on the word "down", i dont remember what the interval is exactly but it was drilled into me at gcse haha
So glad this video is my 3000th like on yt. Mind has been thoroughly fed!
Dude youâre a World Heritage for humanity in music đŒ! Thank you so much !
Star Wars: Perfect fifth. Correct. Empire was the "perfect" "fifth" part.
Hahaha brilliant! I love it
I don't get it??
The fifth will be with you always.
@@HEADBANGEREN The Empire Strikes Back is the 5th movie in the series and is considered by many to be the best of the saga.
@@graemekennedy2326 cheers
Damn you played the minor third and I completed it in my mind with Cruel Angels Thesis
Great video!
That's always like a blessing to watch your videos, great job, you are the top G at explaining music theory, big support from Mauritius đđŸđ©
this helps so much omg ty
West Side Story is truly a treasure trove of weird intervals, I also use Maria for the tritone
same "Maria"..."The Simpsons" :D
Maria is perfect for Tritown star⊠If youâre familiar with the song of course!⊠The other great one from Westside story is the first two notes of thereâs a place for us which I think is called somewhere⊠Thatâs great for a minor seventh⊠Thereâs a place for us
example for major 10th is scar tissue by red hot chili peppers
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this was actually super helpful and I've been playing instruments for 8 years, genuinely didn't understand how people knew this but wow its super simple
The main intro riff of _Scar Tissue_ has that beautiful major 10th F-A chord.
As well as Santeria by Sublime, B-D#
YES!
I thought of it right away! Thanks for posting it.
True, but mind that Frusciante tuned down his B-string to make the interval a PERFECT 10th which is slightly lower than th 10th with equal temperament. There's a great video by Paul Davis explaining this. czcams.com/video/Daw93bRHe4Y/video.html
@@ric8248 thank you for the link, very interesting video!
Those first two notes of Somewhere, with that sound, are SO much like the start of Josie by Steely Dan.
Yes i noticed that straight away
Josie immediately came to mind for me for the minor seventh and octave!
That was my go to as well.
So good.
Thanks, David. That's a fun demo and gets me ready to figure out things away from the keyboard/fretboard. It's an ongoing process.
David, Iâve seen this elsewhere: teaching each interval by associating it with one particular instance in a well known tune. The problem is, it doesnât account for how different an interval can sound in different harmonic contexts. Take the minor third. You describe it as âsounding minorâ and your supporting example certainly does. But the first two notes of O Canada donât have that sad, minor sound, and neither do the 2nd-to-3rd notes of Baby Shark, yet theyâre both minor thirds. Iâm a musician but not a music educator, and I donât know what a better approach is, but surely there is one. If the goal is being able to follow the structure of melodies, at best this approach doesnât get you very far, and at worst it might point you in a direction thatâs actually unhelpful.
This is exactly how I've been feeling listening to his ear training "remember these songs to remember x" playlist, except I wasn't able to explain why. The songs given as examples sound similar yet so different, so it's been hard for me to grasp it, but I haven't seen other comments saying the same and wondered if it was a me issue. I leave his videos still feeling completely unconfident I'd be able to recognize intervals, chord progressions or such
This is true. If the harmonic context is different, or the interval takes place on different scale degrees, you might not recognize it very well. Unfortunately you either have to get used to how the different intervals sound at different points of the scale, or are able to isolate the sounds in your mind and transpose the scale in your head so that the interval matches the examples you're thinking of.
If one was able to easily recognize an interval regardless of the harmony or scale degree, that would likely mean music would be very uncomplicated or not of much interest to us.
The major tenth is used in Scar Tissue by RHCP right at the beginning.
Came here to say the same thing. Iconic riff
Thanks, I was struggling to remember the name of this song - but it was the first example that came into my head as well!
Thanks for that. Therefore would Road Trippin be a minor tenth?
Another fifth is the first notes from the very old TV-series Ivanhoe. First notes of Two of Us by The Beatles are also iconic. Funny how we 'know' intervals in ascending order. I suddenly wondered about the famous first notes of Beethovens Fifth Symphony (of which I once read it was 'Fate knocking on the door'). Very inspiring video. (Edited the order of the sentences).
Two of Us by The Beatles doesn't start with a perfect 5th it's a major 6th. and Beethoven's Fifth is a major third
@@Philrc ' Another' in my comment refers to the one mentioned in the video. I was very much aware the other two examples in my comment weren't fifths. An F for me for clarity, an A for trust in the reader.
@@fritsvanzanten3573ok. it wasn't clear. Looked like you were saying they were all 5ths
@@Philrc Yes, my fault ;-)
You mention Beethovens fifth symphony during a discussion of intervals and then say "another 5th" after that. Beethovens 5th symphony starts with a descending major 3rd. Not sure if you meant to word it the way you did or were confused about the interval or not...just wanted to clarify for everyone else.
THANK YOU!! This was brilliant and extremely helpful! đ€Ż
thanks, this really helped, I've been trying to figure out the best way to tune my timpani, and this helped a lot :)
Very well known example of a tenth interval in popular music: the iconic bass line of Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side', recorded by Herbie Flowers. It's actually two separate bass parts, one on upright bass, and one on electric. It's a beautiful interval on bass.
I think Indiscipline by King Crimson uses it too (among others), but spread among different instruments.
Fully agree, love the tenth on bass! Especially on fretless with some reverb, so mellow.
I don't wanna sound weird, but I really appreciate the para-social relationship I've created with you since I found your channel. I've said this before in your videos, and I'll say it again: as a harmonica teacher I usually struggle making music theory easy for my students, but your content really helps me getting the right definitions for every concept. So, once again, thank you very much for your beautiful work.
Cheers from Temuco, Chile!
Just donât let it go to your head! XD
Very good explanation of the subject with examples known to almost everyone; also, very good speed to explain the musical concepts (without rushing). I will evaluate the music training software that you have recommended. Greetings from Mexico.
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The first two notes of Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers is an example of a major 10th interval.
That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure since I'm not especially musical.
Same as Untitled #2 from John Frusciante
Yep, I had to go find what music it was so much it bothered me that I couldn't remember the name... xD
Thank you, i love that song
The only one I could think of!
My chorus teacher taught us those tricks back in Jr. High and they've been invaluable over the years. I remember the 4th as the first 2 notes in Here Comes the Bride.
perfect fifth instantly reminded me of the main riff in shine on you crazy diamond
When you said you'd go beyond the octave I thought minor 9th. Then as soon as I thought minor 9th I thought Dr.Who Theme. The first 2 notes are a minor 9th and the third note resolves to the octave. I couldn't think of any better example of minor 9th.
I was thinking the same thing - the Doctor Who theme memory starts on the dominant, then jumps a minor 9th, then drops back down a minor 2nd to the dominant one octave above the first note.
And the baseline is a repeating minor third riff.
The two that always helped me were "Here Comes the Bride" for Perfect 4th and the original Star Trek intro song for a Minor 7th. You offered some great examples here though!
Nice
I use these too. Although for the perfect 4th I sometimes think of a song from Indiana Jones The Last Crusade.
I keep coming back to this video. Very useful thanks!
Thank you so much for a great video! It helped me a lotâ€
Here are some of the ones I use (where different from David's):
Minor 3rd 1st 2 notes of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" riff
Major 3rd Opening theme of Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony (1st 2 notes)
Perfect 4th drums in 2nd movement of Beethoven's 4th, opening flourishes of Mozart's "Jupiter" symphony
Perfect 5th 1st 2 notes of Metallica's "One" guitar intro
Minor 6th 1st 2 notes of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" (the famous Tristan chord)
Major 6th "In My Life" by the Beatles (the words "some remain")
Minor 7th 1st 2 notes sung in "Star Trek" theme
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perfect 5th example and probably the easiest to remember in my opinion is the last post. the opening is Bb. it also has the octave as the 3rd note and d as the 10th interval. a pretty good example
**Warning: possible intense, fan-level bias shown in this comment. You have been warned.** đ
For the perfect 5th example, and staying with the Williams discography, is the Superman theme. Someone mentioned paying just as much attention to descending intervals, and the beginning of "Superman" has both descending and ascending perfect 5ths as well as a descending octave. In fact, if you listen to most of the soundtrack, Williams has those obvious, notable intervals strung throughout, including the love theme.
Even in his theme for Lex Luthor, there are catchy intervals that highlight the smarminess of that character.
Like I said in the "warning", I have a bit of a fan-level "bias". I have listened to that particular soundtrack since I was around 5 or 6. đ I could even tell the difference between the themes for "Superman" and "Star Wars," and I knew most kids my age wouldn't be able to do that.
For a major 2nd I would have picked âSo This is Loveâ from Cinderella, it even rocks helpfully back and forth between the 1 and 2.
I believe "A Time for Us" also fits your minor third. That was the earworm that started rattling around in my head as soon as you started hitting those notes.
This is incredibly helpful. Great channel.
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