Songs that will help you identify descending intervals
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
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0:00 Introduction
0:48 Minor 2nd
1:17 Major 2nd
2:01 Minor 3rd
3:10 Major 3rd
4:15 Perfect 4th
4:43 Tritone
5:14 Perfect 5th
6:01 ToneGym
6:48 Minor 6th
7:58 Major 6th
8:28 Minor 7th
8:49 Major 7th
9:54 Octave
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I honestly think teaching intervals in this type of method with songs that if you use interval melodies baselines Guitar lines etc. is way easier than doing the traditional just here’s the interval just memorize what it sounds like there’s no connection to a song something you’ve heard before so this way teaching of us in this way with something that you can relate to what you’ve heard before you might even enjoy you might even like in associate with is so much better way to teach intervals in the sound of intervals than j just here’s a minor third just memorize what it sounds like.
As for beyond-the-octave intervals, Greensleeves has a lovely rising m10 between the first and second half of the chorus (I hear it as D4 to F5 in the key of Gmin).
The way you bring up “Under Pressure” and “Ice Ice Baby” in the same example and not even bat an eye is genius. Lol
Ummm. But there’s an extra note in ice ice baby …
@@JMannus65 “it’s not the same!”
@@JMannus65 Completely original work
I died :D
@@JMannus65 A whole extra note! Must be original
David Bennett piano checklist:
Beatles example(s): ✅
Radiohead example(s): ✅
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That why I love this channel.
"You can also use the bass line to Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice."
Subtle, very very subtle and perfectly delivered with a straight face. 😂
I knew that joke was coming once I heard Under Pressure 😂
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Too bad Queen ripped off that bass line!
@@zzzaphod8507 Under Pressure was made literally a decade before Ice Ice Baby
The verse melody of Even Flow by Pearl Jam starts with a very memorable descending tritone!
Nice example 😀
I remember when I found that!
So does the prechorus of Maniac, going from F# to B#.
also don't stop til you get enough by MJ
"No surprises" by Radiohead.
You. You just played me a song I have been looking for for 9 years.
I am shook. I genuinely NEVER thought I'd find that song!! I was beginning to think I dreamt it!! THANK YOU!!!
That feeling when you find a song you were searching for years is amazing. Even better when that song is No Surprises.
Hahahaha just like my comment about Let Em In's opening using the Big Ben bells!
that feeling is... better than the cherry on a whipped cream sundae
Better than a week that'll never have a Monday
One of my favourite Radiohead songs! Glad I could make your dream come true!
David, what’s the modal change on the turnaround in the introduction?
Here are mine :
*2m* : Für Elise
*2M* : Satin Doll
*3m* : Hey Jude
*3M* : Summertime
*4* : Marche des rois (Bizet)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
*5dim* : Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns)
Dig me Out (Sleater-Kinney)
Black Sabbath
*5* : It don't mean a Thing
*6m* : Love Story
*6M* : Nobody knows the Trouble I've Seen
Lofotens (Thomas Fersen)
*7m* : Watermelon man
*7M* : Pictures at an Exhibition : Baba Yaga (Moussorgski)
*9m* : Killing in the name
La marche des rois ❤️❤️❤ found out about its descending 4rth today!!
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)" has great examples of the descending minor third for pretty much the entire melody
That’s a great example. Love that song ❤️
It also has the minor 2nd interval at the end of each line on the words "these" and "disagree," etc.
Good example, although the title is "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
I have a pretty wicked case of food poisoning, so I have spent about 15 hours watching your videos today (since I am unable to do anything else). I feel like I have taken a years worth of music theory classes. Just wanted to give you a shoutout for making my otherwise awful day edifying and educational. Great channel!
I laughed out loud when he talked about under pressure and ice ice baby like they were different riffs and carried on
They are different riffs. Extra note on ice
Ice Ice Baby isn't a sample. It has an extra note in it. Different Riff
Für Elise will always be the go to for Minor 2nd to me ^^
I just can't get enough of ur intervals related content.
I do pray that u make them more often.
You Rock.
And I do hope that going forward.. UR body and mind is never in grief for beyond 3 seconds.
Another good bass line for the descending tritone is "YYZ" by Rush.
These are so good, the production, the song choices, the way you explain everything in detail. Well done sir
Just LOVE every single video you put out!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!
Give your graphic designer a raise. I love the use of color in the title card here and with the ascending interval video also. Excellent work.
David, videos are always terrific and I always learn something from them. But this one is truly exceptional! I ave a difficult time with descending intervals. This will make a big difference for me!
Thanks!
Where would the world be without the great musical innovations of Vanilla Ice? 😀
On a serious note, the fact that the Beatles fit so many of your examples demonstrates how great they are as songwriters. Musicologists are going to be studying their material long after we are all gone I suspect.
Dude your videos have taught me so much..its opened doors to my firther understanding. Much thanks and i will joining patreon
Great video and just what I needed to practice my ear training. Thank you! Also I'm going to give tonegym a shot over the holiday break. Looks like it could be fun. Thanks again for the great vid and all around solid content, sir !
dude always putting in effort to make us better musicians! Respect!
Thank you so much David! It is so easy to conceptualize this way I can probably name multiple examples of each interval. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and the entire DB massive!
Thanks!!
The minor second interval is a very common interval used when cats meow. Disregarding single long note meows, try looking out for the type of meow that has two notes that descend in pitch. More often than not, it will be a minor second interval. Lol.
Thank you for these videos. I have wanted to have relative pitch my whole life but never was able to train it well. These videos gave me a good place to start and now I've been training for about 2 weeks and I can almost confidently identify any isolated interval
Thank you, perfect timing for me. I have been really struggling with descending thirds when they are not the same notes as Hey Jude, Swing Low or a doorbell.
Some other suggestions:
m2: Fur Elise
M2: the high piano notes in Bohemian Rhapsody, the bass riff in Hit the Road Jack
m3: Clair de Lune (highest notes of the 2nd and 3rd dyads)
M3: first notes of the Take on Me intro, first notes of Summertime
P4: Legend of Zelda, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
TT: YYZ by Rush (intro guitar riff)
P5: Game of Thrones opening
the other ones are honestly pretty hard
David, that's very helpful. Thank you for your great content
Thanks for watching!
Hello and thank you so much for this dude!!
I really enjoy these type of videos. Thanks David!
Thanks!
Excellent, David, and a very Happy Christmas.
I am finding interval ear training more and more important and fundamental to my development as a musician.
Descending melodic (horizontal) intervals are the first crucial step for me to identifying harmonic (vertical intervals) which is then the next step towards identifying triads (three note chords) and then four note chords.
Cool, man. Thanks. Never had songs for the descending. Spent a day or two in high school theory classes naming examples for ascending though. Always found that fun.
Wait, how did I miss this upload? This is super super helpful. Thanks David! Have a great Christmas!
Thanks David!
These two interval recognition videos are phenomenal. From the minor sixth up, it hasn't been easy to find examples that sink in for me. These examples stuck for me. I hope these become the "go-to" videos for all learning relative pitch in the future. I'll be pointing people here
Great video(s)! These practical ear-training memory tricks, are one of the best things a musician without perfect pitch can practice. The same memory trick can be done with chord movement/progressions as well.
Excellent as ever!
I love when people figure out a way to throw in the word "penultimate." Such a great but hard-to-find-context-for word
Yes! I have a friend who always drives me nuts by using “penultimate” when she means “ultimate.” No, the pen part is not an *intensifier*! LOLSOB
I like timbre of David´s voice. Nice singing.
Thanks 🙏😃
"Auld Lang Syne" has good examples of the major second, minor third, and major third descending, particularly in its chorus. The chorus starts on the A above the tonic in the key of C, drops a whole step to G, then down a minor third to E and a major third to C, following which it bounces up and down a whole step between C and D before jumping back up to the high A.
This comment of yours confirms that I’m much worse at identifying descending intervals than ascending ones, lol. I always thought the chorus started with a major third down.
Brilliant thanks these really help
Helped a lot! Thanks
Great Video Dave
This is good I love your work
Thanks! 🙏 This was very useful!
Thanks 😀
Great video! 🤩🥳Thanks!!!
Sunshine of your love (end of the riff) is a very distinguishable ascending minor third followed immediately by a descending minor third. Similarly, the Klingon theme from Star Trek II has is just alternating ascending and descending perfect fifth. Two for one! Ascending and descending back to back!
So glad someone else remembers Joan Osbourne’s One of Us. One of my mom’s favorites, so I heard it a TON growing up.
Great song. I’m old enough that it reminds me of my stepdaughter, who played it a lot as a teen. :)
Hi David, This is super useful! Thank you. Could you also do a video about using familiar songs to learn arpeggio or chords? Thank you again!
Well, I guess the Chairman of the Board has no problem singing the decending Major 7th! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, too, David! You've made an amzing channel. Happy New Year, too!
Merci for this video. I wish I listened to this 60 years ago.
Thanks for doing g this. Thought I’d have to do this on my own.
Excellent lesson as always ❤
Thank you 😊
Thank you so much!!
Thanks!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
Thanks!
Just thought of another example for descending fifth. Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Its the first thing that comes to mind whenever I hear that interval. The "Sit-ing" of 'Sitting on a park bench' is the 5-1 interval.
Great presentation . Many songs you used for samples my ear has heard them many years. How you demoed them in relative relationship for the 12 intervals fantastic . Some of the tunes I did not know but am familar with the groups .
Cheers 01/30/2022
Count me in with those who love these kinds of videos... terrific: thank you
Wow, I never noticed how similar the bass riff to Under Pressure and the bass riff to Ice Ice Baby were to each other. Thanks for pointing that out!
It's an odd coincidence isn't it
I laughed hard when he did that.
For descending major seventh I also use “Both Sides Now” in the third line of the verses. And “There’ll be Sun” from “Tomorrow”
Great way to know intervals - I always think of Jimi Hendrix's Fire for a minor 2nd
I’m like 4 minutes into the video and he’s already managed to use multiple Beatles and Radiohead songs. Brilliant
4:37 - you added the extra note! Too funny!
I already know my music is wabi sabi. No need to elaborate.
I just wanted to say I appreciate what you do here.
I've been subscribed and rarely show appreciation and wanted to express my gratitude.
Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😃
One example (though not particularly well known) for the major seventh is in Voiceplay’s Wicked Medley. At about 1:57, the bass singer (Geoff) drops from an F#2 to a G1. Maybe not the best example as it is harder to compare it to other things as it is pretty darn low, but it’s a pretty beastly example.
Muchas gracias por el ejemplo de 7ma mayor descendente. Me hacía falta un ejemplo así de claro. Tuve dificultades encontrando un ejemplo así de "nítido". Gracias.
My favorite example of descending Minor 6th is "Where Do I Begin? (Theme from Love Story)
Thank you sensei 😁
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"Feelings" by Morris Albert is a great example of a descending Perfect 5th in a minor tone...
That descending major 7th is actually very helpful. That only one I could find previously is Cole Porter's "I Love You" and as I don't know that song very well it has been hard to remember.
Great exemple for the minor 6 is the two firsts notes in the guitar intro of Dream Brother by Jeff Buckley, I use it all the time
Good stuff. Hard to hear but less so than before. Thanks
Very interesting. Thank you..
Great examples! One of the examples from your previous video, the tritone in Rush's YYZ, works really well as a descending tritone as well as an ascending one, since it just vamps on the two notes for a long time. But the Black Sabbath example is also a solid and very noteworthy one, so it makes sense to use it here! Great video, since I saw the first part I've been trying to figure out examples of each interval in songs that I know, but I've been kind of struggling to identify those intervals. Maybe I need to set up a keyboard and noodle around a bit, try to replicate it.
An ascending tritone is also a descending tritone: the tritone chops the octave into two equal halves
@@nbnewman I did know this, but I figured it wasn't necessary and I tend to ramble so I left it out. It is still definitely an interesting aspect though - going up or down a tritone still creates the same pair of notes, just in a different octave. But I meant, in terms of that example, that by alternating between two notes a tritone apart you get both ascending and descending tritones in the same sample of music.
It's interesting. You find good point.
For major 7th the GREAT example is Maybe by Brainstorm (vocal line in a chorus - may-be).
OMG brilliant, THANK YOU, I feel like I've instantly leveled up!
The Love Story melody is great for b6. Unforgettable.
In the late-80s, I used to be well-skilled at melodic dictation, and even pretty good at four-part SATB dictation. Then I had to spend 30 years concentrating on work, and learning Chinese (wife is from Northern Manchuria).
I never would have imagined I’d benefit from such utterly-remedial tips, but they’re working!
Recently, I’ve found myself confusing M6 for m6, and the reverse, and in harmonic presentation, sometimes even confusing them for tenths or occasionally even m7s!
This is helping though, thanks! More generally, remembering _The Entertainer_ , _In My Life_ , the _Love Story_ theme.
For minor sevenths, somebody pointed out the closing-credits theme song for _Star Trek, the Original Series_ .
Mines before I watched the video (in descending order because it's theme appropriate):
- Bulls on Parade (Rage Against the Machine) for descending Octave
- Struggling a bit for 7th and 6th, but the 3rd Movement of the Summer of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi is a good example of a succession of descending Octave, 7min, 6min and 5th.
- Song of Time (Zelda video games) for descending 5th
- YYZ (Rush) for descending Tritone (as already mentioned)
- Old MacDonald had a farm for Perfect 4th
- Summertime (Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald) for descending 3Maj
- Itchy and Scratchy theme song from The Simpons for descending 3min
- Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits) for descending 2Maj
- Fur Elise (Beethoven) for descending 2min
damn that outro hit hard 🔥
Here are some more common examples which people are likely to be familiar with:
Minor Second - first two notes of Beethoven's Fur Elise.
Major Second - my go-to tune which I use in my head is the first two notes of the main riff of The Four Horsemen by Metallica.
Minor Third - Oranges and Lemons
Perfect Fifth - first two notes of the Game of Thrones theme tune. Played nice and slowly on the cello, so it's an easy one to recall.
Do you know any good ones for a descending minor 6th
@@virus3run20 Not off the top of my head, no.
@@virus3run20 The Entertainer ascends and descends again several times over that interval (eight semitones, a minor 6th).
I was sure the octave riff is going to be from "My Sharona" 🙂
That is a good example!
The Rains Of Castamere is also a very good one for the minor 6th, ascending as well as descending, ("and who are..")
Another example that has a perfect forth, a perfect fifth and a major third is Today by Smashing Pumpkins.
One of Us is a famous song for anyone who was in their teens in the mid 90s. Beautiful song :).
When John Belushi did Beethoven in the early days of SNL, he played around with two notes that are easily recognizable as the opening of his 5th Symphony, in a descending Major 3rd interval. He then expands it to a Perfect 4th, then a Perfect 5th. From there, he starts playing the bass line of "My Girl." (5:34)
Here are my personal references for every interval from the perfect uniston to the perfect octave, ascending and descending. I tried to include a lot of Brazilian music, specially Bossa Nova, as it's what I grew up listening to and what I mostly play nowadays.
*PERFECT UNISON (1J)*
- Samba de uma nota só
*MINOR SECOND (2M)*
_ASCENDING_
- O Barquinho
_DESCENDING_
- Anos Dourados
_BOTH_
- Insensatez
- Comptine d'un autre Été
- Jaws
- Corcovado
- Für Elise
*MAJOR SECOND (2M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Lígia
- Parabéns pra você (Happy birthday to you)
_DESCENDING_
- Samba do Avião
- Carinhoso
- Yesterday
- Canon in D
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor
*MINOR THIRD (3M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Greensleves
- Whole Lotta Love
_DESCENDING_
- Hey Jude
*MAJOR THIRD (3M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Eu sei que vou te amar
_DESCENDING_
- Águas de Março
*PERFECT FOURTH (4J)*
_ASCENDING_
- A Felicidade
- O Bêbado e a Equilibrista
- The Godfather theme (Speak Softly Love)
_DESCENDING_
- Chovendo na Roseira
- Under Pressure
*AUGMENTED FOURTH/DIMINISHED FIFTH (TRITONE)*
_ASCENDING_
- Manhã de Carnaval
- The Simpsons
_DESCENDING_
- Piano na Mangueira
- Even Flow
_BOTH_
- YYZ
*PERFECT FIFTH (5J)*
_ASCENDING_
- Que país é esse
- Asturias
- Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Star Wars theme
_DESCENDING_
- É doce morrer no mar
- Game of Thrones theme
- Flinstones theme
*MINOR SIXTH/AUGMENTED FIFTH (6M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Manhã de Carnaval
- The Entertainer
_DESCENDING_
- Chega de Saudade
*MAJOR SIXTH (6M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Marina
- Nocturne in E♭ Op. 9, No. 2
- My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
_DESCENDING_
- Bom Conselho
*MINOR SEVENTH (7M)*
_ASCENDING_
- The Winner Takes It All
_Descending
- An American in Paris
*MAJOR SEVENTH (7M)*
_ASCENDING_
- Pelos Olhos
- Take on me
_DESCENDING_
- Luiza
*PERFECT OCTAVE (8J)*
_ASCENDING_
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
_DESCENDING_
- Bull on Parade
- Deixa
Didn‘t expect to see Black Sabbath on this channel. David you black-hearted head-banger.
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I approve of the high volume of bass lines in this video
The first 2 notes of Sing For Absolution by Muse is the best example of a descending minor 6th that I can think of.
Loved the vanilla ice joke :D
I love the Beatles examples!
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Another nice Major 3rd is on "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins. It's repeated during "Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag".
I love the deadpan expression when you suggest Ice Ice Baby's bassline instead of Under Pressure. Not even a tiny smile. 😀
My man David looking absolutely fresh rn
Can you do a video on the intervals in triads and their inversions, both major and minor, and songs in which you can hear them? E.g.
Ascending Descending
Root Ob-La-Di Ag-a-doo
1st inversion In the Mood (Glenn Miller) All of Me (Frank Sinatra)
2nd inversion Misty (look at me ...) (minor)
The Game of Thrones theme is another good example for a perfect 5th
Hilarious you nailed the “huge” difference between under pressure and ice ice baby hahahahaha one of my favorite vids of vanilla explaining it
I find with descending intervals that minor ones sound major and vice versa. I think it has to do with the shallower vs deeper step down, and that the inversions are reversed.
I'm trying to figure out the relation of the melodies to the harmonics, and it seems effectively the melody tends to linger on the third of the current chord, after starting out on root. Eg yesterday by the beatles, take on me by aha, Maria west side story, all these strong melodies that carry the harmonics with them rather than the other way around. Don't dream it's over refrain hey now, is an example where the melody lingers on the fifth. The harmonics in all cases are steps on the circle of fifth followed by modulations (minor second or minor third). What's so thrilling in yesterday is that the modulation takes place on the second bar already.