Descending Intervals and Interval Inversions - Intervals Made Easy (Part 5) 

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Agree, If you think of it in terms of distance in terms of steps or half steps, it makes sense. Also, Gracie gave us the rules on how to identify intervals on the staff in an earlier video, so same rules apply, just in a different direction.

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Had about 5 min left to finish this video. Why do I need to know this or how will I use it?

I think I need to know why! When you go from C-A ascending, fine, but when you descend, you go to a different A. So OK you are comparing going up to an A or down to an A, but why does this matter? And if you go C-A ascending, and it's a Major 6th, what if you go back to that C where you started, that's the same interval (?) in the other direction, A-C descending, but is that an inversion? .. I think if I knew the point of this it might make more sense, like is this for melodies or for making chords? Anyway thanks for your help so far!

@@stevechilde2319 If you go from C-A ascending, it's a major 6th. And yes if you go back to that C from where you started, going from A-C descending, it is still a major 6th. You are correct - that would still be the same interval. HOWEVER, if you go from C-A descending (which you did not do in either of those two that i mentioned above), then suddenly you have a different interval. Now you have minor 3rd interval, instead of a major 6th interval. Why does this matter? It's always good to ask this. Well, look, you can get by playing music without knowing how to name intervals. But musicians will refer to intervals and it's how we analyze many harmonies within chords and melodies. If you're writing arrangements and analyzing harmonies you would want to know about intervals and how to use them. As you learn how to use them, your teacher might refer to intervals by their names, so you would want to be able to understand how they are named and what the naming process is. Intervals are one of the building blocks of music, so as you study and analyze how music works, you're going to want to understand the terminology everyone uses. Intervals are an important part of the terminology. Can you play things without knowing the terminology? Sure. Lots of people can sing or play harmony lines by ear and they don't really know what they're playing but it sounds good. That's great! But if you want to understand what's going on and have more control, then you'll want to know about intervals. Musicians analyze and talk about the intervals within all parts of music -- chords, melodies, harmonies, etc. So if you want to join those conversations, you'll want to know how intervals work. For example, what happens when someone says "Hey play a melody line that is a major 3rd below what I'm playing." In this scenario you would need to be able to figure out what the major 3rd descending interval is. Since you don't already know what the lower note is in the interval. If you DO know what the lower note in the interval is, you can always just figure out what the name of it is ascending, and it will be the same name descending. For instance if someone said What is A-C descending, you could just look at it as C-A ascending and say "It's a major 6th!" -- BUT if you don't know what the lower note is... then you need to understand how to name a descending interval properly (and the way i teach that in this video is by inverting the ascending interval). For example if someone said "What is the note that's a major 3rd below G" -- you would have to think... okay what is a minor 6th above G (minor 6th = the interval inversion of major 3rd). Minor 6th above G is a Eb. So G-Eb ascending is a minor 6th. Therefore G-Eb descending is a major 3rd. It helps if you visualize this stuff on the piano, even if you don't play piano, because thinking about it abstractly can make your head spin. I hope this helps!

@@MacKinnon2k13 Hi! Sorry for the delay... read my response below to Steve Childe.

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