Intervals in Music

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Intervals in Music

• The building blocks for chords and scales.

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The Ways We Hear Intervals

• Interval
• The distance between two pitches.
• There are two ways we hear intervals in music.
  The two notes that make up the interval either
  happen at the same time, or they happen one after
  the other.

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The Ways We Hear Intervals

• Melodic Interval An interval where two notes
  sound one after the other.
• Harmonic Interval An interval where two notes
  sound together.

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The Piano Keyboard
A/Bb
C/Db
D/Eb
F/Gb
G/Ab
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The Basics of Interval Identification

• Intervals in music are identified in two ways.
• The distance between the two notes
• The quality of that distance
• (more on this another time)

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2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th (Octave)
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2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
Octave
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The Major Scale

• To spell a Major scale we use two intervals
• The Half Step (m2)
• The Whole Step (M2)
• BOTH of these intervals are 2nds

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The Half Step (m2)

• A half step is when you go from one note to the
  VERY NEXT note.

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The Whole Step (M2)

• A whole step is when you skip the very next note
  from a note and play the next one.

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The Major Scale

• The pattern for ANY major scale is this
• W W H W W W H