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Intervals<\/strong>: The Building Blocks Of Music<\/strong><\/p>\n The relationship between two notes is called an “interval” and they are the most basic building block for what we call music. I firmly believe that a comprehensive understanding of intervals is a necessity to improving as a musician, songwriter, composer, and singer. It’s also invaluable for improving upon one’s appreciation for music.<\/p>\n What Are The Intervals?<\/strong><\/p>\n Perfect Unison<\/u> (ie the same note played with itself. An example would be on a guitar where you can play the same note many places on the fretboard.)<\/p>\n Minor Second<\/u> (like C & C#)<\/p>\n Major Second<\/u> (like C & D)<\/p>\n Minor Third<\/u> (like C & D#)<\/p>\n Major Third<\/u> (like C & E)<\/p>\n Perfect Fourth<\/u> (like C & F)<\/p>\n Augmented Fourth or Diminished Fifth<\/u> (like C & F#)<\/p>\n Perfect Fifth<\/u> (like C & G)<\/p>\n Minor Sixth<\/u> (like C & G#)<\/p>\n Major Sixth<\/u> (like C & A)<\/p>\n Minor Seventh<\/u> (like C & A#)<\/p>\n Major Seventh<\/u> (like C & B)<\/p>\n Perfect Octave<\/u> (like a C & another C one octave up.<\/p>\n Learning Intervals<\/strong><\/p>\n To improve one’s musical ability, it’s important to learn the sound of the intervals by heart. You should be able to hear a C and an A played on the piano and automatically know that it’s a major sixth. You should also be able to hear a D and a B and know that is also a major sixth. You see it’s the relationship between the two notes that makes up an interval.<\/p>\n Relative pitch ear training is the method for learning intervals (and also learning what chords sound like, which is the next step you need to take after you master intervals).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Intervals: The Building Blocks Of Music The relationship between two notes is called an “interval” and they are the most basic building block for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,107,103,105,104,108],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-producer","tag-music-production","tag-songwriter","tag-songwriters-hall-of-fame","tag-songwriting-contest","tag-write-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Source<\/a> by Johnny Moon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"