That's because theyre making fun of average everyday citizens. It's funny because theyre literally making fun of just about everyone. Homer Simpsons IS a Simp.
Kick it up a notch and find a reference note you can remember instantly (no joke, I have E engrained in my mind because of Rush E). You can develop fake perfect pitch, and maybe the real thing, but I haven't gotten there.
@@renz.dimarcCrazy by Patsy Cline gave me Db, Enter Sandman gave me E… Internalizing the first note of some of your favorite songs will definitely help!
Some alternatives: minor 2nd = (... Jaws is still the best) Major 2nd = (the major or minor scale) minor 3rd = Lullaby Major 3rd = For He's a Jolly Good Fellow Perfect 4th = Amazing Grace Augmented 4th = (tritone -- I know the devil's interval in my squirming guts) Perfect 5th = Also Sprach Zarathustra (or the Superman theme) Major 6th = Princess Leia's Theme Minor 7th = Original Star Trek Theme (or Pure Imaginiation) Major 7th = (... Take On Me is the clear winner) Octave = (... can't get better than Somewhere Over the Rainbow)
@@voulaboyer9047 Of course bud. The first interval in 'Greensleeves' is a minor third and the interval is probably the most prominent part of the melody overall.
If you want to be more hardcore and be able to identify intervals in real time, you can use music apps to train your ear to hear intervals. It will take time, but when you do this you’ll become a beast at gigs, being able to identify melodies super fast and play them much eadier
Could you give me an example? I've got a pretty decent understanding of basic music theory but I want to train my ear to be able to identify intervals. Ive tried a few things and I have an ok ear but I still struggle. How do most people train their ear to identify intervals ?
@@brawln9550 there are some “ear training” apps out there if you search for it, but i personally haven’t used any. i’d say most people just practice a lot, in many different ways. if you have an instrument (or even just a piano app on your phone), you can play each interval as many times as you’d like, using different notes/scales/patterns. you can record the intervals with your phone and test yourself by playing the recordings randomly and trying to identify each one. there are many ways to train using songs as well, but i’d say repetition (and consistency) is key, regardless of the type of training you’re doing!!
you can add shorts to playlists too! i seriously have no idea why it can’t be done from shorts or the main page, but if you go to your watch history and click the three dots beside the video, the option is there!!
These work really nicely for intervals going up, but what do you do for intervals going down? Also, what about intervals greater than an octave? Minor 9th, flat 13th, etc?
you can find songs that have intervals going down. the other ones might be a bit trickier, but there must be some music out there to use as reference as well (even if it’s just instrumental). he gave good, well-known examples, but the hack itself is just associating each interval with a song /you/ know well
Absolutely. If you know that a specific song is in a key and you know how the note sounds by heart without any reference, you should be able to recognize that note anytime you hear it
That’s what we all learn at school. You also use some of the “typical” examples everyone uses. 😉 Is that really a secret? You might look for examples the other way, that’s where people often struggle (higher note first).
Nice!!! I do the same thing with relative tempo ranges. Recalling specific songs for moderate, allegro, allegretto, etc. never thought about doing the same thing for pitch intervals. Life saver!!!
Minor 2nd - Super Mario Bros. 3 Boss Battle Major 2nd - The Legend Of Zelda Dark World Minor 3rd - Megaman X Armored Armadillo's Theme Major 3rd - New Super Mario Bros Wii Overworld Theme Perfect 4th - Super Mario World Bowser's Revenge Theme Tritone - Doom Eternal Theme Perfect 5th - Geometry Dash Stereo Madness Minor 6th - Super Mario Bros Theme Song Major 6th - Donkey Kong Land Kremlantis Minor 7th - Undertale Death by Glamour Major 7th - Minecraft Wet Hands Octave - Super Mario Bros Undergeround Thene
Musical Intervals Identifiers MINOR 2ND Jaws Theme MAJOR 2nd Happy Birthday song (‘Happy’ to ‘Birthday’ gap) MINOR 3rd Mad World / Greensleeves MAJOR 3rd Kumbaya PERFECT 4th Smell Like Teen Spirit (two ringing guitar notes) Tritone The Simpsons Theme (‘The’ to ‘Simpsons’ gap) PERFECT 5th Star Wars, Black Beauty Theme MINOR 6th The Entertainer MAJOR 6th My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean MINOR 7th Somewhere (West Side Story) MAJOR 7th Take On Me (‘Take’ to ‘On’ Gap) OCTAVE Somewhere Over the Rainbow
big ben chime for major 3rd wedding march for perfect 4th E.T. for perfect 5th Sounds like it a 4th..until you *sing* a 4th, and realize it's a major 6th Safety Dance for octave
Most of the time I play random notes thay sound nice, my brain immediately thinks, "I feel like I've heard this before. Oh right, the melody of Don't Stop Me Now"
I'm trying to get more familiar with identifying intervals but I don't get this tip which I've seen a few times. Like I might recognize the Jaws theme as a 2nd but only if it's played pretty close to the original sound. If it's played much higher then I can't make the connection. Maybe it's b/c i'm a beginning beginner? Anybody else experience this?
Great way to identify intervals, but not super useful when you're identifying intervals in a song. I train by singing feks a C and then the major triad going up. Then I sing a C down to Bb and then the major triad up from Bb. Then C again now I sing C, Bb, Ab and the major triad going up from Ab and so on... Both ways have pros and cons ofc.
Yo, dont learn intervals, learn solfege. Learning to hear intervals isolated from a musical context (ahem… a key center) is a much less useful tool than learning how to recognize what scale degree you are listening to (because the difference between a major third between do and mi feels quite different from a major third between so and ti, which can really confuse beginners to ear training). Start by learning to hear tonic, then to recognize the five, then learn the major and minor pentatonic scales. Do re mi so la do, then la do re mi so la. Once you can do that, hear how fa wants to fall down to mi and ti wants to go up to do. Soon you’ll recognize which pitches dont fit into the major or natural minor scale and figure out how to relate them to the other notes you can hear more clearly. After familiarizing yourself with solfege and the color of different scale degrees, you will already know a bunch of intervals. Figure out that mi to so is the same distance as la to do and you might find it easier to start hearing minor thirds. Then you can work on hearing intervals out of context for the fringe cases when hearing the solfege isn’t enough. Hope this helps😊
So true, I was doing ear training for an app and struggling with minor and major second. But the app also had written lessons that mentioned "jaws" for minor 2nd and since then I rarely miss it
My high school band teacher told me the notes to the NBC theme were G-E-C because “General Electrical Company” was their largest supporter. I’ve never forgotten what an major 6th sounds like since then.
My teacher taught me this, however, you have to be really familiar with the songs. As a black hearted metal fan, I can't recall any segment from west side story for example.
This technique is not unique. But never worked for me. Interval between two notes is the same. But I hear it differently basing on different root, because the Hz values are different.
honestly i kinda just go based off of "if it doesnt sound like shit its probably a major or perfect interval" and i kinda just guesstimate based on what i think it is. if im really bothered by it tho, i have some wicked relative pitch
You are awesome Andrew. You deserve all the success you have and more. Your videos are so educational and fun and well done. My one criticism is you make me feel like I am a mediocre musician lol. You are one of the best people on youtube.
I remember getting my mind blown discovering the concept of relative pitch (or whatever the more apt terminology; I'm not on that jargon level yet) by myself as I try to play Somewhere Over The Rainbow by ear. Well, that and the piano loop in Runaway by Kanye.
Dude some of these rattle through my head incessantly, it’s hilarious to see this in a video. An octave is *always* Somewhere Over the Rainbow and a perfect fifth for Star Wars as well. Amazing lol
great hack but the entertainer one i wouldnt use cause its going from the 3 up to the 1 so i dont hear it as a sixth even though it rly is that interval its an inverted third to me
“The simps-“
That's a potential meme.
Came here to comment exactly this lmao
“The Simpsons” already is a meme. The Simpsons are the sons of the simps aka the next generation of simps!
Hahah
That's because theyre making fun of average everyday citizens. It's funny because theyre literally making fun of just about everyone. Homer Simpsons IS a Simp.
This is exactly how my music teacher taught us. He got us to find songs we could link to them and I used a few in this video 😅
Why does bro sound like he has 104 days of summer vacation.
brilliant
"Here comes the bride" also works for major 4th
MUSIC HACK! but you still have to practice. :D
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For major sevenths I always think of the song “subwoofer lullaby” from Minecraft. The beginning is just major sevenths over and over
c418
The whole thing alternates between C and Cmaj7, making it sound so warm and peaceful
I usually think of aria math by c418 it’s also major 7ths
If I remember correctly, it's C E5 G E5!
DUUUUDE i've been doing this FOREVER, it's how i developed my relative pitch!
Kick it up a notch and find a reference note you can remember instantly (no joke, I have E engrained in my mind because of Rush E). You can develop fake perfect pitch, and maybe the real thing, but I haven't gotten there.
@@renz.dimarcCrazy by Patsy Cline gave me Db, Enter Sandman gave me E… Internalizing the first note of some of your favorite songs will definitely help!
Some alternatives:
minor 2nd = (... Jaws is still the best)
Major 2nd = (the major or minor scale)
minor 3rd = Lullaby
Major 3rd = For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
Perfect 4th = Amazing Grace
Augmented 4th = (tritone -- I know the devil's interval in my squirming guts)
Perfect 5th = Also Sprach Zarathustra (or the Superman theme)
Major 6th = Princess Leia's Theme
Minor 7th = Original Star Trek Theme (or Pure Imaginiation)
Major 7th = (... Take On Me is the clear winner)
Octave = (... can't get better than Somewhere Over the Rainbow)
cool
For tritone, I use West Side Story.
"Maria! I just met a girl named Maria!"
"A Tri-Tone! I just sang a song with a Tri-Tone!"
I also learned mayor 6th with Leia’s Theme.
Also the perfect 4th is “The Force Theme”
Thank you So much!
I use this all the time, the start of Mad World is also a good one for the minor third
Greensleeves is my go-to
@@stykkisholmPlease help a beginner. ‘Greensleeves’ for what interval exactly? Thank you
@@voulaboyer9047 Of course bud. The first interval in 'Greensleeves' is a minor third and the interval is probably the most prominent part of the melody overall.
i always liked "here comes the bride" for perfect fourth
Yo. How. Did you just break my brain.
Mi sol do
I always think of Somewhere Over the Rainbow when I hear an octave
I think of the GameBoy start-up sound
the simps
i cant believe you made a 30 min video into a 1 minute short... literal legend
I always used the NBC jingle for the Major 6th
Dude, this is the best concise list of examples of every interval within an octave. This is gonna help my students so much.
Minor 3rd is just the Among Us theme
If you want to be more hardcore and be able to identify intervals in real time, you can use music apps to train your ear to hear intervals. It will take time, but when you do this you’ll become a beast at gigs, being able to identify melodies super fast and play them much eadier
Could you give me an example? I've got a pretty decent understanding of basic music theory but I want to train my ear to be able to identify intervals. Ive tried a few things and I have an ok ear but I still struggle. How do most people train their ear to identify intervals ?
what apps?
@@brawln9550 there are some “ear training” apps out there if you search for it, but i personally haven’t used any. i’d say most people just practice a lot, in many different ways. if you have an instrument (or even just a piano app on your phone), you can play each interval as many times as you’d like, using different notes/scales/patterns. you can record the intervals with your phone and test yourself by playing the recordings randomly and trying to identify each one.
there are many ways to train using songs as well, but i’d say repetition (and consistency) is key, regardless of the type of training you’re doing!!
What apps?
Is there a longer video? I wish YT shorts had like a save button
I got me a link list in a WhatsApp Group where I am the only person... 😅
@@koreenkurtson6191 huh🤔😅😂😂 doing that right now thanks man
you can add them to playlists!
you can add shorts to playlists too! i seriously have no idea why it can’t be done from shorts or the main page, but if you go to your watch history and click the three dots beside the video, the option is there!!
These work really nicely for intervals going up, but what do you do for intervals going down? Also, what about intervals greater than an octave? Minor 9th, flat 13th, etc?
Yess, I want an extended version!
And the harmonic intervals
Find a song with intervals that go down
you can find songs that have intervals going down. the other ones might be a bit trickier, but there must be some music out there to use as reference as well (even if it’s just instrumental). he gave good, well-known examples, but the hack itself is just associating each interval with a song /you/ know well
Nah doesn't work for me cos the same interval sounds different in different harmonic contexts to me
Where's Rick Astley?🤣 I was waiting...
Can yo do the same things with notes? I feel like I have been able to do it before but maybe I was just getting lucky.
Absolutely. If you know that a specific song is in a key and you know how the note sounds by heart without any reference, you should be able to recognize that note anytime you hear it
For some reason minor sixths are the easiest for me to recognize, easier than octaves even
What about diminished and augmented intervals
You should've used sparkle mountain for the octave one, i love the octave jumps in there
Swear you took this from a sideways video
Thanks for this! It's very simple, immediately obvious, and incredibly effective!
Someone please like this comment so that I can find it quickly when I'm done doomscrolling.
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This was really cool
That’s what we all learn at school. You also use some of the “typical” examples everyone uses. 😉
Is that really a secret? You might look for examples the other way, that’s where people often struggle (higher note first).
Nice!!! I do the same thing with relative tempo ranges. Recalling specific songs for moderate, allegro, allegretto, etc. never thought about doing the same thing for pitch intervals. Life saver!!!
Minor 2nd - Super Mario Bros. 3 Boss Battle
Major 2nd - The Legend Of Zelda Dark World
Minor 3rd - Megaman X Armored Armadillo's Theme
Major 3rd - New Super Mario Bros Wii Overworld Theme
Perfect 4th - Super Mario World Bowser's Revenge Theme
Tritone - Doom Eternal Theme
Perfect 5th - Geometry Dash Stereo Madness
Minor 6th - Super Mario Bros Theme Song
Major 6th - Donkey Kong Land Kremlantis
Minor 7th - Undertale Death by Glamour
Major 7th - Minecraft Wet Hands
Octave - Super Mario Bros Undergeround Thene
We had to learn thsi for all state and now Ik the interval god😈. They work rlly well with movie or video game scores
This is awesome! I never realized the Simpsons was a tritone!
Using that interval in the melody was a way of letting the audience know that not everything was OK with the Simpsons.
Very interesting.
I do the same thing but for pitch
I thought we would be Rick Rolled for a second
Musical Intervals Identifiers
MINOR 2ND Jaws Theme
MAJOR 2nd Happy Birthday song (‘Happy’ to ‘Birthday’ gap)
MINOR 3rd Mad World / Greensleeves
MAJOR 3rd Kumbaya
PERFECT 4th Smell Like Teen Spirit (two ringing guitar notes)
Tritone The Simpsons Theme (‘The’ to ‘Simpsons’ gap)
PERFECT 5th Star Wars, Black Beauty Theme
MINOR 6th The Entertainer
MAJOR 6th My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
MINOR 7th Somewhere (West Side Story)
MAJOR 7th Take On Me (‘Take’ to ‘On’ Gap)
OCTAVE Somewhere Over the Rainbow
I have "Stress" by Justice for minor seventh lol.
Love the 10th by Enterprise Captain Kirk Intro. 12th is so rare! (Over the mountains)
big ben chime for major 3rd
wedding march for perfect 4th
E.T. for perfect 5th
Sounds like it a 4th..until you *sing* a 4th, and realize it's a major 6th
Safety Dance for octave
Forgot you existed bruh, kinda glad you showed up again lol
Most of the time I play random notes thay sound nice, my brain immediately thinks, "I feel like I've heard this before. Oh right, the melody of Don't Stop Me Now"
I'm trying to get more familiar with identifying intervals but I don't get this tip which I've seen a few times. Like I might recognize the Jaws theme as a 2nd but only if it's played pretty close to the original sound. If it's played much higher then I can't make the connection. Maybe it's b/c i'm a beginning beginner? Anybody else experience this?
I DO THAT ALL THE TIME
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE
songs i use for it:
blinding lights (weekend) (fmaj)
chariot (calboy) (amaj)
This is GENIUS oh my bejesus crist
thank you, so so helpful
Great way to identify intervals, but not super useful when you're identifying intervals in a song.
I train by singing feks a C and then the major triad going up. Then I sing a C down to Bb and then the major triad up from Bb. Then C again now I sing C, Bb, Ab and the major triad going up from Ab and so on...
Both ways have pros and cons ofc.
Yo, dont learn intervals, learn solfege. Learning to hear intervals isolated from a musical context (ahem… a key center) is a much less useful tool than learning how to recognize what scale degree you are listening to (because the difference between a major third between do and mi feels quite different from a major third between so and ti, which can really confuse beginners to ear training). Start by learning to hear tonic, then to recognize the five, then learn the major and minor pentatonic scales. Do re mi so la do, then la do re mi so la. Once you can do that, hear how fa wants to fall down to mi and ti wants to go up to do. Soon you’ll recognize which pitches dont fit into the major or natural minor scale and figure out how to relate them to the other notes you can hear more clearly.
After familiarizing yourself with solfege and the color of different scale degrees, you will already know a bunch of intervals. Figure out that mi to so is the same distance as la to do and you might find it easier to start hearing minor thirds. Then you can work on hearing intervals out of context for the fringe cases when hearing the solfege isn’t enough.
Hope this helps😊
So true, I was doing ear training for an app and struggling with minor and major second. But the app also had written lessons that mentioned "jaws" for minor 2nd and since then I rarely miss it
My high school band teacher told me the notes to the NBC theme were G-E-C because “General Electrical Company” was their largest supporter. I’ve never forgotten what an major 6th sounds like since then.
My teacher taught me this, however, you have to be really familiar with the songs. As a black hearted metal fan, I can't recall any segment from west side story for example.
And for all the white keys. Snap - Rhythm is a dancer. E-C-D-C, F-A-F, G-B-G, A-C-A
I didn't think Star Wars with that perfect 5th. I thought Shine On You Crazy Diamond
This technique is not unique. But never worked for me. Interval between two notes is the same. But I hear it differently basing on different root, because the Hz values are different.
Music always goes up! That’s what i learned here😂.
Well, it does. Sometimes it just goes up by negative numbers
honestly i kinda just go based off of "if it doesnt sound like shit its probably a major or perfect interval" and i kinda just guesstimate based on what i think it is. if im really bothered by it tho, i have some wicked relative pitch
Perfect 4 - Auld lang Syne
Major 6 - N B C
Minor 7 - Josie by Steely Dan
when i heard major 6th i immediately thought of DUET from omori!!!
So intervals are spaces between notes?
Basically yeah
You are awesome Andrew. You deserve all the success you have and more. Your videos are so educational and fun and well done. My one criticism is you make me feel like I am a mediocre musician lol. You are one of the best people on youtube.
you forgot the singular hacking notes to the Psycho shower scene 😨
"Happy BIRTH-"
When the octave example isn't megalovania.
very cool
I remember getting my mind blown discovering the concept of relative pitch (or whatever the more apt terminology; I'm not on that jargon level yet) by myself as I try to play Somewhere Over The Rainbow by ear. Well, that and the piano loop in Runaway by Kanye.
For the tritone I can think of only 1 thing: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
this is great lmao
this is actually very helpful
I've never heard "Happy birthday" sung in key, so maybe not the best example
i thought of among us when i heard the iii 💀
I always know an F from my heart will go on, it’s how I got picked to play the French horn (in the key of f)
This is a cool idea i like it !!
if this gets copyright claimed i will write a long thing about how wrong it is. but i don't think it will. two notes is enough!
I always think of the "where is my mind" electric guitar riff for major 3rd
Or…. you could just have very good recognition and identify it on the spot.
The perfect 5th always makes me think of Big Shot from Deltarune
Bro my choir teacher always referenced Star Wars for Major 5th, brings back good memories
Taking me back to when I had to learn and recognize intervals for theory. A few years later and they're all I hear
The harmonic style of 18th century European musicians
I can identify singular notes from ear with this method
damn we really have to know this just through hearing, im new to music
Now you just to memorize 77 more songs to cover each scale. It's easy mkay
Would be super awesome to also have one with descending intervals :)
I currently have an ear infection, so it's pretty funny hearing all of this off-tune.
Dude some of these rattle through my head incessantly, it’s hilarious to see this in a video. An octave is *always* Somewhere Over the Rainbow and a perfect fifth for Star Wars as well. Amazing lol
What about examples for descending intervals tho👀
Does anybody have any tips for descending and harmonic intervals?
Interesting. I've never thought to use melodies to remember intervals, so I didn't quite get this hack at first.
Do you have examples for descending intervals?
"I've lived" - My Way, Frank Sinatra. Major 6th
First is have to know what the intervals are and why I can't hear the sounds you play in these songs
I thought the minor 3rd sounded like the beginning of cruel angel thesis
I use the first two notes of The Legend of Zelda theme to remember a perfect fifth
great hack but the entertainer one i wouldnt use cause its going from the 3 up to the 1 so i dont hear it as a sixth even though it rly is that interval its an inverted third to me
The perfect forth makes me think of Star Wars but "The Force Theme"
The theme from the original Star Trek is great for a min 7th. The first two notes.
Whaaaat? For minor7 you didn’t put Star Trek?? 😱
Minor ninths are killing in the name of by rage against the machine