Intervals: Part I - Half of Everything You Need To Know In 7 Minutes
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Intervals are a measurement of the distance between two notes. This video explains how to determine the number of an interval as well as the quality of most intervals up to an octave. Part II(coming soon!) will cover larger intervals, inversions, and intervals with odd roots that aren't based on major scales.
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Ahh yes, the ever elusive radioactive and wi-fi accidentals...
Still a fifth! ;-)
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@@BradHarrison Subminor 3rd: C to E ~2/3 tone flat
Neutral 3rd: C to E ~1/4 tone flat
Supermajor 3rd: C to E ~1/6 tone sharp
Major 5th: C to G ~1/4 tone sharp
Minor 5th: C to G ~1/4 tone flat
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I'm Indian, speak Hindi natively, and I share the same feelings for english as you, exact same, the internet does give some amazing free music tutorials
@@angels5449as an english speaker I often wonder what I might be missing out on in other languages
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If you’re not a teacher I think you missed your calling, you’re extremely good at it. I appreciate your efforts thank you sir!
Why is 5th perfect and 3rd is a major?
Watch part ii!
I agree!
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Thank you, really! I’ve always found music theory boring and just preferred to play by ear, but you’ve made me want to learn more about it. I laughed out loud at dub octia the destroyer. Your channel is a hidden gem.
Thanks so much!
Me, too! Except because I played an instrument in band, I learned to read music; I put forth the effort to memorize certain classical pieces, mostly Chopin preludes and a couple of Debussy's works.
Yeah,it is boring…l
The explanations are extremely clear, understood everything perfectly.
I'm taking music theory and piano lessons and this video really cleared up some confusion I was experiencing with calculating intervals. Great presentations! Like and subscribed!
I understood every explanation just one play. I have found my new music theory class
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I always liked the Dub'octia interval, it gives so much tension to the composition
Dub Octia The Destroyer.
I don't have a funny comment. I just felt compelled to write it down myself. I'm not disappointed.
So glad you enjoyed! I like to drop in a joke or goofy line here and there and this is one of my favorites.
Great work! Can't wait for part two.
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I loved that you explained the purpose of intervals at the beginning.
You helped me a lot throughout my music journey!
Is finally starting to make sense... thank you so much for this!
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wow this got recommended at the perfect time. i was just struggling with how to figure out how to make specific intervals, so thank you! :)
Excellent!
This is the best explanation I've found.
im taking a music theory class in university and it was a 3 hour lecture, i did not understand a single thing. i watched your 7 minute video and it all makes sense now.
Excellent! Glad you found it helpful! This stuff is all so interconnected, it’s easy to get lost, and university profs often expect you to already know this stuff. Good luck with the class!
@@BradHarrison Thank you!
So very clearly explained.
Perfect!
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This was great thank you now for part 2
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Thank you so much.... finally understood intervals
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These videos are 'perfect on intervals'!
Thanks for clarifying inversions! Love using them, but they confused me cuz I thought it changed the root.
thank you!
1:18 the accidentals hahaahhaha so good
i am so glad i found your channel man
they have so much useful content while at the same time having the perfect dosis of humor
I will definetly use "Dub'Octia: The Destroyer"
Try playing E Radioactive major ;-)
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very interesting and simple language.
You have a great sense of humor.
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What I've come to realize is that key (signature) Is fundamental in arriving at the various interval type/quality as it's the reference.
This was my major sticking point
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There are up to 2 semitones smaller called minor and diminished, but there seems to be just one semitone larger (augmented) and not 2?
just read the comments its talked about in the second part. Thanks for being through :)
really appreciate and admire your work. thanks for the great content. struggled for years with theory, you make it look simple and effortless. Kudos!
Hey! Yeah, glad you figured it out. Raised my two semitones isn’t really a thing. You could call it doubly augmented but I’m not sure I’ve seen that out in the wild. All the best!
Please do three video all about transportation and terminology
1:15 lmao, good job :D
Good vids. Thanks for doing them.
(The background music was a little too loud though;
distracting; I had trouble hearing what you were saying at times)
Are diminished 3rds and major seconds the same thing? In terms of the distance between the notes? Also in a major scale wouldn't an augmented seventh mean the 8th? which is an octave? Why then do they have separate terms for these?? Thanks in advance Brad
You’re correct. A major second and diminished third sound the same, are played the same, but look different on the page. Same for augmented seventh and octave.
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a useful context for either. Some intervals are more common than others. Augmented 6 is rare but minor 7 is super common. But they all technically exist! Sometimes humans are just like “what if we did this?” And then we have to give it a name.
@@BradHarrison Okay phew, that's a relief xD
I really don't think so
@@adikickass84 In most microtonal temperaments, dim3 and maj2 are not the same.
For a diatonic temperament, if the temperament is meantone, then dim3 is bigger; otherwise, maj2 is bigger. Same goes with octave and aug7.
Cool! But its a bit fast
That's what I thought, initially, then it dawned on me; I need to speed up. The good thing is he's metronomic precise on all counts, invariably.. I'm adapting
So is any given major diminished chord call so because we flatter two notes by a semi tone, thus the chord as a whole has been lowered by two semitones?
A diminished triad about be C Eb Gb, the third and the fifth are lowered by a semitone from major. If you also lowered the C to B you'd actually have a B major triad(B D# F#). You can also have a Cm7b5(C Eb Gb Bb) and Cdim7(C Eb Gb A). Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison ahh! That’s great thank you!!
Hear it to believe it 😃
Funny Note: the Minor scale has a major Second
Just found this channel and it's great that you use the k.i.s.s method, but I've never understood the double flat notation, it's about as useful as notating a C as a B sharp or notating E as a F flat. Your example had C and a double flat A why is it written like that and not just written as C G, a perfect 5th?
Double flats tend to be rarer than double sharps(which are used all the time in minor scales). Imagine a piece in Ab major where the line goes Ab Bb C Db D-nat Db D-nat Db D-nat. You've have to have a flat and natural on every D as they move back and forth. But if you use Db and Ebb, you only need to notate the Ebb(and the D is already flat from the key signature). So it can be useful to reduce extraneous notation, even if it's a bit weir to get used to at first. I agree they're pretty rare in general but they're technically possible and they exist so we give them a name. In many cases, a composer would just default to the "regular" note rather than a double sharp. Nobody prefers them!
By the way, E# and similar notes are definitely necessary, far more often than double sharps and flats. You need E# to write a C# major scale or a C# major chord. You might say that Db is preferable but it's a lot easier to transpose from B to C# than it is from B to Db. The more music you play, the more you see this stuff, especially if you get into jazz, musicals, and "contemporary classical" music. Those weird sharps and flats show up all the time.
Hope that helps! Good luck!
Wow
Thank you this was very helpful but I’m still confused on why my perfect fifth intervals are always flatter than my 1st note (maybe it’s because I play brass but it’s like this for every chord i try)
Do you mean intonation when playing? Maybe grab a tuner and see if a visual reference is helpf for getting more in tune?
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I love fourths
Brad, you left out a pretty important distinction: a Perfect 4th or 5th are "Perfect" because they are in each other's key signature. C to F is a 4 notes apart. F in in the key signature of C, BUT C is in the key signature of F - therefore, it is Perfect! I think you should have also made the distinction that when a Major interval is inverted, it becomes minor (C to A, Major; A to C, Minor) Minors become Majors. Augmented becomes diminished AND they always add up to 9. Major 3rds become Minor 6ths, Augmented 4ths become diminished 5ths BUT Perfect intervals STAY Perfect. They still add up to 9 though.
Have a look at part ii. ;-)
I have an greater understanding on I intervals ,but I still can’t tell when it’s Major or perfect. Could you farther explain?
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There’s really not much to it. As the video explains, perfect is 1,4,5,8 and major is 2,3,6,7. Is that what you meant?
@@BradHarrison Major and minor fifths do exist, but only in microtonal music.
This may be a stupid question, but shouldn't at 2:45 there technically be two sharp signs on the staff to signify D major key (since we're talking about D major there)? I was following the explanations mostly visually and got confused why F# was called major third for a moment.
Key signature isn’t always required. Accidentals do the same job. And using either one wouldn’t have changed anything in the part of the video. But if anything, I wanted to be clearer by using accidentals. Some people wouldn’t see the key signature, or wonder why I was making low F sharp when the key sig only shows the high F as sharp(people mix this up all the time). Basically, both work but I thought this would be clearer. Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison Thanks!
I'm paused at 3:49. In a C major scale, would a D note be both a major 2nd, and a diminished 3rd, as a D is also an Ebb?
D would indeed be a major second above C. D can also be written as Ebb. C to Ebb would be a diminished third, but you wouldn’t normally refer to C to D as a diminished third, because it’s a major second. Just like how C to F# isn’t a diminished fifth, it’s an augmented fourth. Short answer, some intervals can be written in two different ways on the page, but they sound the same and are played identically on the piano. Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison It helps a lot! Thank you very much, that makes sense now 😃
Brad i have a doubt...
Are intervals made according to every scale.?...
Like for example if i take A Minor Scale....Then The Major Second Of That Scale....It Must Be B Flat?.... right.....
And also can we imply this in every scale?...
Scales are defined by the intervals between the notes. A major scale is TTSTTTS(T = tone, S = semitone). That's the *definition* of a major scale. You can start on any note, follow that pattern and get a major scale. Different scales have different patterns. A natural minor scale is TSTTSTT. So, the second note of the A minor scale would be B, not Bb.
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Oh sorry Brad.... it's a typo.....what i meant was Minor 2nd must be B flat.... I'll recorrect my mistake....but anyways thanks for the clarification...your teaching makes it so easy.......
My must know question is- what do you call C-E double sharp? What is higher than augmented third?
It’s pretty rare but I think most people would call it a doubly-augmented third. At least, they would probably know what you meant. fwiw, I did talk about this in part ii.
Hi do you have a video about creating ascending and descending scales? Lol else I will fail music class 😂
Yep! I’ve got videos on major scales, minor scales, and one in parallel scales which is a way to make all kinds of different scales by changing the major. Most scales are the same ascending and descending but there are exceptions, like the melodic minor.
Question, with a C major scale where the 7th note is diminished what is the formula to make it a chord???
CEGBb would be a dominant 7th chord. Is that what you meant. Might want to check out my video on Triads too. Might clear some things up. (Sadly i don’t have one in 7 chords yet, but triads is a start)
@@BradHarrison I appreciate the reply I will try to clarify my question, a C major scale starts with C major D min E min F man G man A min B diminished. I don’t understand the formula for the diminished chord? Does it automatically become a dim 7th chord and if so which diminished? A 7 dim a half diminished or bb diminished ?it’s confusing!!!!😯
A dim triad is two stacked minor thirds, C Eb Gb, or B D F. A dim7 is another minor third in top, C Eb Gb Bbb(aka A), or B D F Ab. Half diminished is a dim triad with a minor 7th added(major third about the fifth), C Eb Gb Bb, or B D F A. Half dimininshed(aka m7b5 shows up as the ii chord of harmonic minor). Diminished 7 shows up as the 7th chord of harmonic minor.
@@joncarr9794 You're confused probably because you're mixing two concepts, here.
Looking at that chord enumeration, you're talking about triads built on each note of the C major scale, where Bdim is the seventh chord. The problem is calling it a Dim7 chord.
*_It is not a 7th chord, just a regular diminished triad with the root on the seventh note of the C major scale._*
Check out this video on triads:
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it's funny i watched this while i ate breakfast
4:49 I trust you
haha. I meant pause if you want to inspect for yourself, to understand and absorb. People sometimes say my videos are too fast, but the pause button works great whenever you need it!
i still dont get the part here 4:29,
Since thirds are a major and added a semitone bigger, shouldn't the first note be aug3?
Think of a D major scale. F# is the third note of that scale, so it’s a major third. If it was D to F, that would be minor. Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison ahhhhh i see, thnkyou lots!!
1:15 if it were flat, wouldnt it technically be an augmented 4th/diminished 5th?
I mean, still a fifth, but im nitpicking now
Nope. 5 notes apart equals a fifth, regardless of accidentals. A diminish fifth and augmented fourth sound the same but look different. A Cx to Gbb sounds like a major third but it’s still a fifth on the page.
Thanks i wont fall class now (i play trumpet)
Me too!
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please can you make a video on UNISON, that will really help us, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Unison? It’s covered in the video. What else is there to say about it?
@@BradHarrison okay not a problem, actually I did not understand even though I watched the videos twice 😅
If you could explain it in a different video with few examples.
Perfect unison just means the same note. When two instruments play a C, that’s unison. The interval from Ab to Ab is unison too. C to C# is augmented unison and and C to Cb is diminished unison. Easy peasy! Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison Thanks A lot Sir ☺
Still just “going with it” but aggressively.
I have a question
What is this chord called GBDFG?
G7 aka G dominant 7.
@@BradHarrison thanks
Do we need the unison notes?
Sure! Two different musicians playing the same note, rhythm, or melody, are said to be playing in unison. “Hey! Aren’t we supposed to be unison there? Let’s try that again.”
Who else is watching this before a test you think you’re going to fail. EDIT: I got a 64%
Oww
i can bearly understand but impreasive
Where are you getting lost?
Can someone please explain the difference between a diminished 3rd and a major 2nd?
They’re enharmonic equivalents. They look different but sound and are played the same. There’s lots of those in music. They’re not always equally commonly used, but they are equally valid. Hope that helps!
@@BradHarrison I really hate it when music theory does that. In an ideal world, B# shouldn’t exist
I get it, but I promise it would actually create more exceptions to not have it. It feels weird at first, but these things make mor and more sense the longer you live with it and get into more complicated music.
i have a ques that two semitones together makes up a tone ?
You bet! Talked about that in my major scale video, which most people tackle before intervals.
@@BradHarrison yeah so instead of two semitones can't we say a tone ?
Sure! Tone, whole step, and major second are all synonyms.
@@BradHarrison ok thank you for answering 🙂👍
I don't understand the point of a unison, isn't that just a single note?
Is it ever actually notated? If so, why?
It can be a useful term for communication. Like, “hey, clarinets, flutes. You’re in unison at section B. Listen to each other for pitch and articulation.” Or, “you move from a minor thirds apart to unison, watch out for pitch and don’t be surprised that you’re suddenly playing the same note.”
Also, we name all the other intervals, and unison exists. It needs a name!
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Why the natural sign on C at 5:40 ?
To clearly differentiate it from the C# and Cb above. Accidentals last for the whole bar so there can sometimes be confusion in cases like this. While I think most people would recognize the C natural without the extra sign, I think it’s good to err on the side of clarity in music notation. That’s the reason I use maj and min rather than M and m or + and -; clarity.
Okay I get it , Thanks @@BradHarrison 👍
*fails class in seven minutes*
Great video except for the background music. The music was distracting.
I wholeheartedly agree. People interested in music are naturally drawn to listen to music, but when that happens, the listener is distracted from the explained content. Why have it?
It’s a very common feature in these types of tutorial edutainment videos. It can feel a bit stark without some sort of filler. But lots of people complained so it’s not in my more recent videos.
Where is Part 2?
Check my channel or search for it. I definitely made it!
Arrived with no music theory experience. Left with brain matter oozing from ears.
I don’t doubt it! Intervals are pretty intense if you don’t already have a few basics down.
@@BradHarrison Good to actually hear back from content creators! Thanks for replying! Do you happen to have a music theory series that starts at absolute zero for beginners like me?
Not specifically but these videos are roughly in order and they’re going to give you a real good foundation. Good luck!
Music Theory videos
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How do you see semitones bruh
Easiest way is the piano keyboard. A semitone is just the direct next note, whether it’s black or white.
15 is a 15ve or i call it a quindecave
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Speaking fast 🤕🤕🤕 It's good, I mean I know how to understand and get the point faster even faster than this, but not now... Because now I'm not able because My speed understanding abilities get lowered 4 semitones Because I have Headaches so strong. All I understand is that we can get from the major interval to the minor and to the diminished and to the augmented. And from the perfect interval we can get to the diminished and to the augmented and never to the rest(to the minor, to the major ones). But You don't mention the Steps and intervalic steps!! That's how I can understand better. Because Steps is what matters most!!
Watch again and pause when you need to. I’m sure it will make much more sense the second time around.
..bruh..In the video about major chords u said there is no such a thing called double flat or sharp and now here u are bringing it up and saying its OK. I'm confused >:(
Don’t think I said there’s no such thing, but I did say they don’t typically get used in major scales. But there are other contexts to use them.
I'm willing to bet at least half of these views are from band students because their directors are making them watch for class
I mean, yeah. This is made for students! Most adult amateur musicians aren't dying to know how intervals work. But students and people who want to be pros gotta learn their theory.
it would help to hear some actual notes, without them it's only talk
I hate my brain WHY CANT I I UNDERSTAND THIS
What part is giving you trouble?
@@BradHarrisonthe part from 0:01 through 6:59
Yeah, that part is pretty tricky. Are you familiar with major scales? Intervals don’t make any sense if you don’t know those. Check this out if not. ua-cam.com/video/v44NY4fyxHA/v-deo.html
@@BradHarrison yeah I’ve almost memorized all the major and minor scales and sense this video I’ve kinda got an understanding of it. I’m just having trouble applying it to figuring out what chord I’m playing.
@@BradHarrison I’m not good at learning one thing at a time. I want to know more than is reasonable for someone just starting to learn this. I’m learning all this theory as someone who’s been producing music for a few years so I kind of already have large ambitions with it. Is there a good exercise I could do to apply intervals? I’m better with hands on learning.
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