intervals

[Anonymous]

just spent a couple of hours reading up interval patterns
in the major keys, then i picked my sax and was
amazed at how much easier it made it playing
wise in working round all the major scales on the sax.
i’ve definitely underestimated the knowledge of
music theory!

[Dazza]

Hey sxpoet I concur. I was up late the other night and couldnt sleep so i jumped on the net and found some interesting sites outlining the relationships between the relative minor keys to the malors and how to build them off the 6th of the major scale then how they quickly become a blues scale by adding another flattened note. Music is definitely made up of repetitive patterns but quickly becomes a head spin if you try and remember too much too soon. I still marvel at how we are meant to remember all this and the chords within each and all the variations to be able to improvise!!!

[Anonymous]

dazza – thats correct the 6th key will give you the name
of the relative minor for a major scale, which most theory
text books show.
If you look into the keyboard patterns for all
the intervals of the major scale, then you will
be able to put your finger on any piano key,
sharp,flat or natural and instantly be able to
put your finger on the key of the interval you
want to play next.
eg if you press a Eb key, and want to play
perfect 4th next – if you know the patterns
of a 4th interval, you can play it automatically
without the pattern knowledge i would
be wasting time trying to work it out in
my head. Scales are built up from
interval patterns – so if you know em, you
jump around scales a lot quicker..
all cool stuff … got minir interval
patterns next

[Anonymous]

Johnny’s right about if you are studying music
theory, you need a keyboard or an ipad
piano keyboard in garageband!
Otherwise it makes difficult to hear
when 2 notes harmonize (eg play any major
note & its major 3rd interval togther)
or when 2 notes clash(dissonance) (eg play
any major note & its major 2nd interval together)
Similarly if you listen to any song, you can
with practice work out what key it is in because
all the notes are drawn towards one note in its
scale which some people call the tonal note.
If you sing any note in the scale of a song & start
singing the notes below eventually you should stop at
the tonal note which names the scale of the song!
That takes practice.

[Andrew Gibson]

One thing I did was for each key, learn:

– the 2nd
– flat third
– 5th

I found by doing that, it was easier to construct scales, chords etc for each note; knowing how to construct the scales was more important than actually learning the scale.

[Anonymous]

yeah – i’ve paid up to do a music theory course which lasts a year,
and the 1st thing i learnt on scales was how to create them, circle of 4ths,5ths etc..

recently learnt how to remember all the interval positions for all 12 chromatic notes – which takes a lot of practice. The easy ones are the octave interval, the major 3rd & perfect 5 (the last 2 i can recall from practicing arpeggios).

lately been working on chord creations, once you know the major chords for all the scales (basicaly an arpeggio) then its quite easy to change it to a minor/diminished/augmented/7th chords.

recently started on the tonal side of music ie learning how all these different chord types fit together in the harmony side of music, consonance etc.. how things sound at rest and in movement – some realy deep atuff in music theory!

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