Intervals: Music Theory Explained Simply for Guitar
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Understanding intervals and how they are used on guitar is a great way to become a better guitarist. This video will explain in the simplest way possible what intervals are, why they're important, and how to use them as a guitarist.
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how does this presentation only have 1400 views? Aaron, I don't know how, but you're teaching style and visuals finally broke through for me. I get it now. Watching for the 3rd time.
You are a God. This is what I was looking for but no one could explain it this clear. Eeeeveryone say "for beginners" but in one way or another they just end up screwing it up by bumping a notch the difficulty. This really is for someone who doesn't know anything at all. Thank you so much.
Aaron, you are an amazing teacher. Thanks a lot.
Great explanation , Thank You .
Maaaan, you article and the video are the teaching methods I found for learning intervals and chords, great content👌🏻
Holy cow this article and video blew my mind. Thank you so much
Thanks a lot. I have been highly benefitted by learning about intervals.
great content.Thank you.
Thanks a Lot. Could you show us Circle of intervals and relationship with creation of chords, etc. what I saw in others videos which trying explain us more from music theory?
Aaron, great video and website. You mention in the video downloading a cheat sheet. I'm having trouble finding it. Would you provide a link, please? Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. I did have a PDF but I don't know why it's not listed anymore. I'll see what has happened and let you know when you can download it again.
Hey dude, This is great. Where can I find the chord/scales videos? I don't see them anywhere on you channel.
Glad you enjoyed the video. I do have plans on creating similar videos for chords, scales, and other theory topics, but I haven't created them yet.
If you want to learn about scales, check out my full guide here: guitargearfinder.com/lessons/guitar-scales-explained-simple-faq-charts-tabs/
It covers the music theory behind scales as well as how to practice scales.
@@AaronMatthies Awesome! Can't wait to see more man. Easily the most understandable music theory lesson I've had.
thanks a lot for the videos - it has helped me immensely along with your website. I believe there is a problem with naming of the interval as the intervals are measured from the lowest pitch to the highest so in the harmonic examples in the video and the site the intervals are being measured from highest to the lowest pitch, kindly, correct me if I am wrong. Thanks
Intervals are just the distance between two notes, so you can measure an interval going up (eg: a fifth up from A is E), or going down (eg: a fifth down from A is D).
The harmonic examples in this video are labelled correctly. I think using the open A string is causing the confusion as it's the lowest pitch note, but it looks like the 'top' note if you only look at the TAB. The example at 12:30 should make more sense as the notes in the TAB are stacked in order of pitch. Hopefully that makes sense.
@@AaronMatthies thank you for the prompt reply. I think am not able to explain, but I'll try: for instance the example at 6:04 would be a Major6 instead of Minor 3rd as it would have to be measured from the lowest to the highest pitch, if we measure it the other way around it would be an inverse and then it would be Minor 3rd. I am getting this information while practicing interval recognition on an app called tenuto - i was getting the interval names wrong and then I checked music theory interval naming and that's where i got this info. I have learnt a great deal from your site, and I hope I am not sounding like I am preaching someone who know far more than myself.
@@screenchipper I understand what you're explaining. You're right in trying to measure the distance from the lowest pitch note, but you're mistaking which note is the lowest pitch. The lowest pitch note isn't the 8th fret, so if you try to measure up from C to A, you'll end up with the wrong answer (Major 6th). Play each of those two notes at 6:04 (8th fret on the E string and open string on the A string) separately on your guitar and think about which one sounds the lowest pitch. The open A note is the lowest pitch and the 8th fret on the E string (that note is C) is the highest pitch. Measuring up from A to C, is a minor third.
Try looking at these two notes in a different way. Imagine instead of playing the open A string, you play the 5th fret on the low E string. Listen to how it sounds, it's the same pitch as the open A string. Now you're comparing the note on the 5th fret to the note on the 8th fret of the same string. This makes it clear that it's only 3 frets apart, so it must be a minor 3rd interval.
@@AaronMatthies Thanks a lot Aaron for taking the time out to explain. I think I kind of get it - since the 5th fret on the Lower E string is in unison with the open A string it is a lower pitch note and therefore it is a minor 3rd interval in the exmaple that we are discussing here. Thank you once again for all the indepth explanations that you put out for free for us , I hope that the subscription to your channel grows manyfold.
@@screenchipper that's right, you've got it. The more you play around with different intervals and try to figure them out on your own, the easier it gets. Having a fretboard diagram with the notes labelled also helps as you can easily count up and down a string to figure out the intervals.
I got a lot out of the lesson on intervals. In the written lesson, you mentioned working up a future set of exercises using intervals rather than scales. I'd be keenly interested in that.