Songs that will help you identify ascending intervals

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Being able to recogise intervals when listening to a melody is incredibly valuable. A great way to anchor your perception of each interval is to use a famous song to remember how they sound, to remember the particular sound of each interval. So today I will give you at least one famous melody for the twelve intervals within the octave and one beyond the octave!
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0:00 Introduction
1:52 Minor 2nd
2:47 Major 2nd
3:39 Minor 3rd
4:22 Major 3rd
5:34 Perfect 4th
6:03 Tritone
8:08 ToneGym
8:55 Perfect 5th
10:02 Minor 6th
11:54 Major 6th
12:52 Minor 7th
14:16 Major 7th
15:35 Octave
16:48 Intervals beyond the octave
19:02 Minor 9th
20:42 Outro

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@DavidBennettPiano 2 года назад

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@bin8350 2 года назад

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@Philrc 2 года назад

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@a_witcher94 2 года назад

great video. brilliantly informative.. if I might add some constructive criticism .. the position of the mic is very distracting. maybe put it besides the piano or record with two cameras: one focused on your hands and one on your face .. otherwise .. perfect video

@Philrc 2 года назад

@@a_witcher94 "brilliantly informative" 🤣😂 you lot are weird!

@a_witcher94 2 года назад

@@Philrc awww thanks

@necrozma4029 2 года назад

Imagine taking a music theory exam and hearing someone singing "all around me are familiar faces" very quietly

@DavidBennettPiano 2 года назад

😂

@george474747 2 года назад

Imagine if they started playing intervals on slap bass or sax instead. (Too much 80s disparagement in this video... I want to see David present the next one on keytar - embrace the cheese!)

@necrozma4029 2 года назад

@@george474747 that would be interesting to see

@keizotim Год назад

@@DavidBennettPiano hello there I love your videos please keep on doing them thanks keizo tim or @keizotim

@CRUSH40RULES Год назад

Yeah, or any exam would be great.

@Lefty7788tinkatolli 2 года назад

Fun fact: If you play the lowest and highest notes on a full-size piano, that interval is a Minor 52nd!

@overtonesnteatime198 2 года назад

Wow.

@bluedingo1186 2 года назад

(Happily throws fact onto the massive pile of fun facts in my brain)

@chrimbo90 2 года назад

And this particular interval can be heard in every primary school music lesson 😏

@vecernicek2 2 года назад

It's more fun than a fact though

@FunnyAnimatoFilms 2 года назад

That is a fun fact. Thank you.

@roxonbenoit7951 2 года назад

1:52 Minor 2nd - Jaws / Fur Elise 2:47 Major 2nd - Halo Theme/ Frere Jacques / Happy Birthday 3:39 Minor 3rd - Pure Imagination/ Mad World (All around me are familiar faces) 4:22 Major 3rd - Subway Surfer / Wipe Wipe Wipe It Down Wipe /(descending) Golden Wind 5:34 Perfect 4th - Amazing Grace 6:03 Tritone - Regular Show / The Simpsons 8:55 Perfect 5th - Star Wars 10:02 Minor 6th - The Entertainer / (descending) Love Story 11:54 Major 6th - Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2 12:52 Minor 7th - Can't Stop / Somewhere 14:16 Major 7th - Take On Me 15:35 Octave - Somewhere Over The Rainbow 16:48 Intervals beyond the octave 19:02 Minor 9th - Killing in The Name

@calebdupree8728 2 года назад

Thanks

@roxonbenoit7951 2 года назад

@BL00DYME55 2 года назад

Don't know how you could leave out "Can't Stop" by RHCP for Minor 7th example. It's a much more recognisable and iconic song than Somewhere from some movie from the 60s (or was it a play) most people never heard of. The moment I hear E followed by D, i instantly hear Frusciante's intro in my head and just want to resolve it up to the E an octave up. But maybe that's just a guitarist in me talking.

@roxonbenoit7951 2 года назад

@@BL00DYME55 Thanks for the suggestion, I was struggling to find one for Minor 7th

@AliKhan-sy9jy 2 года назад

Thanks!

@robertoriggio117 2 года назад

"Take on Me" is brilliant. I always recognize the major seventh simply by its proximity to the octave, but that's a really great example that I had never thought of.

@acapellascience 2 года назад

i was SURE you were gonna do Dr Who for the minor 9th

@gingerfreak01 2 года назад

Same here.

@DaringNote62 2 года назад

Same

@sambaxter8236 2 года назад

'Need to' by Korn

@HotSauceBear 2 года назад

1:13 I thought he was going into Shine On You Crazy Diamond

@louisaruth 2 года назад

rage all the way

@josephgriesemer5343 2 года назад

Fun fact: A perfect fifth sounds similar to an octave because when played in produces an octave undertone or subharmonic of the fundamental note.

@JoshuaWillis89 2 года назад

Science is cool 🤓

@herowars_MCY 2 года назад

1-5 => power chord, because science :)

@318h7 2 года назад

Finally, a logical explanation! Thanks

@polyphony250 2 года назад

@@318h7 It's 2 over 3. If you play the rhythm with your hands, it's obvious - the frequencies "sync up" on every other oscilliation of the lowest. So the "synced" oscilliations are at half the frequency of the lowest note, one octave below. More dissonant intervals will create lower pitch undertones for this reason, i.e. the longer the time between each synced oscilliation, the lower the note produced. Sorry about the non-technical language, these are not concepts I have been taught.

@user-dj9td1kx5x 2 года назад

@@polyphony250 that sounds correct, and that's the reason there is a distinct throbbing in a minor 2nd or, stronger still, in a just slightly out-of-tune unison

@theoceanfrog 2 года назад

Nice simple examples. As a music teacher, I’d love to see your examples for descending intervals, we only ever do ascending choices.

@bassmaiasa1312 2 года назад

Yeah, I always watch that, to make sure I don't skimp on the descending. For minor third and major 2nd, I use the line from Somewhere over the Rainbow, 'if happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow' But I also try to hear the inversion inside the interval. So if I hear a minor third, I want to hear the major 6th at the same time.

@dimebucker2 2 года назад

Radiohead - The National Anthem has descending maj3 min3 and maj2 all in the same riff!

@Ioganstone Год назад

fun fact: Gangsta Rap - Nigga Nigga Nigga is a rather astute example of OP's point.

@mensamoo Год назад

David uses YYZ by Rush as an example of a tritone interval. This is actually a descending interval, although he used it as ascending.

@jacobw4612 Год назад

Some songs that I use: m3 - Seven Nation Army, Greensleeves M3 - Oh When the Saints P4 - Bridal Chorus ("Here comes the bride") Tritone - Maria (West Side Story) P5: Twinkle Twinkle M6: Jingle Bells ("Dashing through the snow"), My Bonnie

@near5148 3 месяца назад

Greemsleeves

@RochRich. 2 года назад

Minor 3rd Me: Ah yes, Crazy Frog David: Mad World Me: That works too

@Cherri_Stars 2 года назад

This is so helpful

@johnhenrymills4517 2 года назад

Axe f

@jamlemon 2 года назад

Definitely, I heard Axel F then he starts playing Mad World!

@singerofsongs468 2 года назад

lmao, this is now my reference point

@IanFarrington1 2 года назад

When he started, I thought Send in the Clowns lol. Heard that ad nauseam growing up.

@antoineleroux5544 2 года назад

Alright so... here's what I use: Minor 2nd up & down: Eyes Wide Shut piano thing Major 2nd up: Happy Birthday Major 2nd down: Yesterday (Beatles) Minor 3rd up: Seven Nation Army (White Stripes) Minor 3rd down: Hey Jude (Beatles) Major 3rd up: Oh, When the Saints Major 3rd down: Big Ben chimes or Summertime (Gerschwin) Perfect 4th up: Amazing Grace Perfect 4th down: Under Pressure bassline (Queen) Tritone up: The Simpsons Tritone down: Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) Perfect fifth up: Star Wars theme Perfect fifth down: Game of Thrones or Zelda themes Minor 6th up: In my life intro(Beatles) Minor 6th down: Love Story theme Major 6th up: Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) Major 6th down: Il Était un Petit Navire Minor 7th up: Original Star Trek Theme Minor 7th down: Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) Major 7th up & down: Popular guitar intro (Nada Surf) Octave up: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Octave down: Bulls on Parade (RATM) Minor 9th up: Killing in the Name Bass thing (RATM) And that's about it... Good video!

@TeShiky 2 года назад

If you really wanna be able to detect major 10ths, a great song for that is VCR by The XX

@sacriste 2 года назад

Our hero

@markmurthen7068 2 года назад

Don't get him started on Yesterday!!

@maxschumann2761 2 года назад

I don't get the min6 reference to in my life. Otherwise, great list.

@nimnone 2 года назад

Copy, paste. Thanks!

@snicky58 2 года назад

I use "Here Comes the Bride" to identify a perfect fourth. I think of the first two notes of "Maria" (from "West Side Story") to identify a tritone. I am only at the beginning of this video but I'm already finding it helpful and kinda fun. Thanks!

@Thetimrobertson 2 года назад

I always use Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik. I simply cannot NOT hear it.

@IlaughedIcried Год назад

Yes! I've always, always used "Maria" as the example of a tritone -- the West Side Story score is actually spilling over with tritones, all over the place -- and I was shocked it wasn't mentioned. :)

@namibia584 Год назад

I use the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

@snicky58 Год назад

@@namibia584 Good one! Several perfect fourths in a row!

@namibia584 Год назад

@@snicky58 There's also "Take off Ya Hoser."

@robertmartin32 2 года назад

I've been playing guitar (badly, but I enjoyed it), for the past thirty years. Watched hundreds if not thousands of of videos. Got a basic understanding of music. Stumbled on your website and in six months I have improved a thousand fold. Thank you,your a true breathe of fresh air. Keep up the good work.

@minigunner9060 2 года назад

best thing I can say is learn C maj scale and how to hear these intervals. C Maj forms the foundation for all the other modes and makes it VERY easy to learn them while knowing the intervals by ear will let you more easily ear learn songs or when writing, allow you to know how to get the right feel or emotion for something you want to play

@junglekiity 2 года назад

The chorus of "Into the Unknown" actually uses an 11th! It's the interval the third time she sings "into the unknown" and is part of what makes the song feel so epic and dangerous.

@es175yes 2 года назад

I love 7th's,9th's and 11ths

@MenacingBanjo 2 года назад

Whoa, you're right. I thought that was a tenth, but she goes all the way up to the upper 4th. Neato.

@johnallegood4469 2 года назад

So THAT'S why I love singing it so much

@brickabang 2 года назад

As a subnautica fan I was so confused what you were on about. Then I realised you’re speaking about a song from Frozen

@jaredd9166 2 года назад

In the BTS, the song authors specifically cite the unusual size of the interval as what gives the melody its emotional sense of breaking free from what's traditional or comfortable.

@jacefairis1289 2 года назад

fun fact: you can use Somewhere Over The Rainbow to identify the octave (some-where), the major sixth (way-up), *and* the minor sixth (there's-a).

@EmpiricalPragmatist 2 года назад

Nice! You can also use various Star Wars tunes to identify most of these intervals. The Force theme for a perfect 4th, Han and Leia's theme for a major 6th, The Emperor's theme for a minor 3rd, and the Love theme from AOTC for a minor 6th. :)

@MajesticDemonLord 2 года назад

And minor 7th - 'over'

@eel9096 2 года назад

@@EmpiricalPragmatist I always use these too! I just didn't know what the actual themes were called lol

@eel9096 2 года назад

@@EmpiricalPragmatist also, the cantina band is really useful for perfect 4ths

@atanvardecunambiel8917 2 года назад

Minor Third: “Someday I’ll wish upon a star”

@andylovesbats4566 Год назад

I live in central Europe, in the Czech Republic and because of that, the major 6 interval actually to me sounds perfectly stable and consonant. It is often used in our folk songs, when there's more then one voice. The voices often go in major (or minor) thirds and major sixths, and often without "resolving" to e.g. a P.5. at the end of a song, and it's been like that for centuries. It's quite interesting to note, because compared to this, christian chant music (gregorian chants, etc.) in history uses almost exlusively the "cleanest", most stable intervals - the octave the P5 and the P4 (with occasionally using thirds).

@nakejtypek1829 Год назад

Kterou písničku máš na mysli, co se týče tý sexty? :D

@andylovesbats4566 Год назад

@@nakejtypek1829 Hej, prakticky každá druhá lidovka, či její sborová úprava (od dětství zpívám ve sboru, takže toho mám naposlouchaného hodně). Tzv. lidový dvojhlas je, když se k původnímu hlasu souběžně zpívají tercie nebo sexty, čili to má dokonce i název. Jako příklad uvedu např. Nepi Jano, nebo Chodila Maryška.

@FuerstMykisch Год назад

Interesting. Ca you name some exemplary songs that I can listen to on RU-vid?

@laknathchamikaraweerasingh6067 Год назад

thanks

@beenaplumber8379 Месяц назад

That's so cool to know. I compose for community theater, and sometimes I'm asked to come up with music that evokes a place and time, and I like to study traditional music from the region and pick up things that give them their unique flavor. I'll file this in my Czechia box! (My sister-in-law is Czech, and therefore so are my nephews, usually spending at least part of their summers in Prague. Funny we've never talked about Czech music.)

@IcepickL 2 года назад

With the string sound you had on the minor 7th, I was sure you were about to break into "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac. I don't know if it's technically an interval, but those are the notes they hit most hard in the intro so it functions as an interval.

@yamankurul9497 2 года назад

same here

@gville001 2 года назад

I hear Josie!

@lukeyboi0899 2 года назад

I heard The Chain too!

@christiandady2581 2 года назад

Same!

@lorrainedonahue9507 2 года назад

It was so obviously The Chain. Even the sound he had on the synthesizer sounded just like it. Lol

@diegolucano3354 2 года назад

I wish people also showed songs where the interval descends rather than ascends

@chrisschack9716 2 года назад

That song from Love Story is perfect for a minor 6th down, for instance.

@deyama2012 2 года назад

I thought the same. Off the top of my head, there is Fur Elise and Yesterday for descending minor and major seconds respectively.

@JiveDadson 2 года назад

@@deyama2012 _Yesterday_ begins with three notes on the same pitch. Listen to the Beatles original.

@secularZoo 2 года назад

@@JiveDadson yes but I think he does it in the 2nd verse. Good observation though

@bennetteberle4476 2 года назад

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones. Perfect fifth down.

@jaredd9166 2 года назад

"Into the Unknown" from Frozen features intervals of an octave, 9th, 10th, and even an 11th in its masterful chorus. In the BTS, the song authors specifically cite the unusual size of the interval as what gives the melody its emotional sense of breaking free from what's traditional or comfortable.

@cynzix 2 года назад

The wider interval is right at the end, sung by Aurora

@geoffreyprecht2410 2 года назад

I was wondering why I loved that track so much! It's beautiful, even though I don't remember much else about the movie.

@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 2 года назад

You don't listen to opera much do you?

@gamechimp869 2 года назад

@@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 you can be less pretentious. Weirdo

@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 2 года назад

@@gamechimp869 Weird and pretentious for the basic knowledge that people can sing more than a fifth? Also big talk coming from an industry that considers Lloyd Webber "beneath them".

@sarailyn2436 Год назад

I sat through all of this and was able to pay attention the whole time which is rare so thank you for making this!

@michaelkonomos Год назад

Thanks so much for this. I was doing an interval training app and felt really stuck just trying to listen to the tones without mental associations. Now I hear Jaws and Let’s Dance and I immediately started improving. I am doing to to try and get better at music in order to express myself, so you really helped me with that. thank you.

@WorldNews92 2 года назад

Now I know about the tritone, I appreciate the irony of The Simpsons welcoming us with a heavenly choir and background using such a devillish sounding musical arrangement.

@jeremyowens3319 2 года назад

I find a lot of comedic / wacky music will lean on those tense moments to resolve.

@Teelirious 2 года назад

The Simpson's and "Maria" from WestvSide Story are strange identical twins.

@chameleonicblu22 2 года назад

David, can you do a video analyzing this theme song? Please!!?! I tried to analyze it once as a youth and I gave up. All I remember is that it's in Lydian.

@MikeS29 2 года назад

***Reverend Lovejoy has left the chat***

@aidendiamond5793 2 года назад

Danny Elfman knew what he was doing

@i.liberato4241 2 года назад

David's Examples: Minor 2nd: Jaws Theme - John Williams Major 2nd: Frère Jacques - traditional Minor 3rd: Mad World - Tears for Fears (But it Really should have been Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer) Major 3rd: Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder / Let's Dance - David Bowie Perfect 4th: Summer Nights - from Grease Tritone: YYZ - Rush / The Simpsons Theme - Danny Elfman Perfect 5th: Star Wars Title Crawl Theme - John Williams / ET Theme - John Williams Minor 6th: Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty / The Entertainer - Scott Joplin Major 6th: The Holly and the Ivy (Christmas song) - traditional Minor 7th: Somewhere - Leonard Bernstein, from West Side Story / Bass from Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers Major 7th: Take on Me - A-ha Octave: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - from The Wizard of Oz Minor 9th: Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine

@TheCinnaCat 2 года назад

Yeah, I really thought he was going to go with Axel F based on the notes he played for the minor 3rd.

@woutere 2 года назад

Major 6th: the first verse of Jingle Bells at the word "dashing".

@Gay4Garak 2 года назад

@@woutere Good one. “O’er the” (fields we go).

@finctank 2 года назад

The Shins’ James Mercer sings some very wide intervals, like in the song Phantom Limb

@seanfitz81 2 года назад

I was thinking Axel F too

@itsah-lee-uh7185 2 года назад

For a minor 6th, I use "Across the Stars" by John Williams. It's Padme and Anakins love theme from the Star Wars Prequels and it's one of my favorites from that trilogy.

@francesprendergast1721 Год назад

I think I found my perfect teacher! Honestly, you make learning what can be a pretty dry subject such fun. There's something about the way you teach and make your videos that really clicks for me. Thank you!

@kittycatcrunchie 2 года назад

Ad: "Regardless of what you might think, interval exercises are ineffective. It's not just my opinio-*skipped*" David: "This video is sponsored by ToneGym. Being able to identify an interval by ear..." *Laughed so hard*

@makaiev 2 года назад

Same xD

@error50012 2 года назад

Lol what's there reasoning even why they are inefective?

@PedroMachadoPT 2 года назад

Actually the ad made me think and I listened to it to its end. But it didn’t explain why it’s ineffective. Maybe learning to recognize which note in the scale we’re listening to is more effective than learning intervals. I don’t know.

@entropybentwhistle 2 года назад

@@PedroMachadoPT Don’t do anything, ever, because it’s hard for someone.

@theworkoutsounds7391 2 года назад

@@error50012 Go watch the video “why you don’t want perfect pitch” by adam neely, it’s quite interesting. Basically, interval training is not ineffective, but there are other skills that you should be training as well.

@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy 2 года назад

Also, Maj 6th: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean ( first two notes ).

@andrefortes1342 2 года назад

Black Orpheus by Bonfá

@adamwojtasiak6204 2 года назад

YES THIS IS WHAT I DO TOO

@teresacronin5801 2 года назад

I learned it with My Bonnie.... 53 years ago. I still remember that lesson. A light went on

@urwholefamilydied 2 года назад

Thank you... I don't know "Holly and the Ivy". I'm american, maybe it isn't as big here for xmas stuff?

@unvergebeneid 2 года назад

The downside of this: you then have My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean stuck in your head for the next five fucking hours ;)

@orlanino 2 года назад

One of the more important lessons for any musician. Good work!

@seanoreilly602 2 года назад

I was genuinely taken back when the Minor 3rd wasn't Axel F. It seems so perfect to me, since it plays the A, the C, and then the A twice more. Really vivid sound. And my go-to for the perfect fifth is Something In The Way by Nirvana. The opening is just Kurt Cobain playing the very stripped back A5 and F5

@GoatCat_ 2 года назад

I thought it would be Clair de Lune

@elegantwaffle257 Год назад

@@GoatCat_ but...

@GoatCat_ Год назад

@@elegantwaffle257 I see what you mean. It’s more of a chord than an interval

@pcache Год назад

minor 3rd is the first 2 notes of the blues scale, so there's sooooo many examples in blues inspired genres like rock'n'roll, later rock, and rock-inspired music in general. smoke on the water, whole lotta love, are you gonna be my girl, you spin me round (chorus), muse - psycho, even flippin wannabe by spice girls. too many to name

@mdtexeira 2 года назад

Was mentally preparing to hear you talking about the tritone being the Devil's chord, and then you mentioned Neely, and I was unreasonably happy about that.

@timdelaney366 2 года назад

@@JimmyTulip1 it's not well known?

@VanessaHolguin 2 года назад

6:31 *BULLSHITE~* @@JimmyTulip1 It's a not a myth... Adam Neely is a woke lefty that lies about shit in his vids (see: White Supremacy vid).

@informant09 2 года назад

@@VanessaHolguin It is a myth. You are right about Adam being a woke lefty but that doesnt make everything he says false.

@VanessaHolguin 2 года назад

@@informant09 It *was* banned. Just because a #4th existed in pieces from that period doesn't mean it wasn't still thought of as the devil's interval and banned by the church. THAT is the lie. Sure it existed. Yes it was used. To pretend the church didn't ban it in many places in Europe is an outright denial of reality (but that's what woke leftist's do... try to change word meaning, history [Virginia statues say hello], and of course... minimize anything church related).

@CD_Character 2 года назад

An example using both the octave and the tritone is Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath". E - E - A# So maybe this is the Devil's work after all ! (jk)

@ClikcerProductions 2 года назад

The way I remember a perfect 5th is "someBODY", thats all I need

@tombworld9012 2 года назад

Thanks, you have now ruined Star Wars for me forever.

@minapolina6661 2 года назад

Oh yeah? WHEN I WAS is a Perfect 4th. Fuck any of your other songs you claim on that interval, homie.

@Jewpacca 2 года назад

Comment of the year here, folks

@rubixtheslime 2 года назад

This is also my go to example for a pickup beat

@Falk0209 2 года назад

fuck you I love it xD

@iamamish 2 года назад

this is what we did in HS music theory and I still remember those lessons. Learning intervals like this is amazing ear training.

@illuminotme4261 Год назад

I grew up loving Movie Soundtracks and often piddle with them for fun. I was leaving intervals just as you show and it has helped me significantly. Thanks

@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy 2 года назад

Min 7th is also Star Trek, the tv show theme ( 1st two notes ).

@jeremyowens3319 2 года назад

That's the one I hear. When he added the second example and said he grew up with it, I thought for sure Star Trek was coming out. heh

@S0loChr1st0 2 года назад

@@jeremyowens3319 That's funny, when I heard the sound he chose I immediately thought of The Chain

@quietone610 2 года назад

especially since that sounds almost EXACTLY like Lindsey's(sp?) guitar.

@Nico_higu 2 года назад

@@S0loChr1st0 interesting

@jongorman751 2 года назад

Nah. With that tone he had its immediately Josie by Steely Dan

@ash1rose 2 года назад

Such a great reference tool. I remember learning similar techniques in choir. We never learned the minor intervals just the major, though I can always recognize minor thirds. We were taught the “doorbell” for major thirds and the song “Taps” for major fourths. John Williams REALLY likes his major fifths. The Superman Theme also uses that.

@firstnamelastname3182 2 года назад

I came here to see if anyone else uses doorbell and Superman! How about Come As You Are by Nirvana for a Perfect 4th?

@DawnDavidson 2 года назад

In choir I learned the rising major sixth is My Bo(nnie Lies Over the Ocean.) And “Do, a deer, a female deer” gives both rising and falling major thirds. Both ones I’ve never forgotten. I like most of his examples, though a few were too recent for me.

@Katerine459 2 года назад

I was wondering if anybody else would bring up Superman too. :) Though I usually use it to remember how the major 7th goes.

@rizahawkeyepierce1380 2 года назад

Ha, we used "Here Comes the Bride" for perfect fourths. And then my music professor in college said to be cautious using that one, since it's Sol->Do, not Do->Fa. Still works, but it's a different vibe.

@freyathewolf4909 2 года назад

For our 4ths in choir our teacher uses "here come the bride", specifically the "here comes" part! Neat to see other choirs do this too. Also when we were doing a chromatic scale in one of our songs she used the Jaws theme.

@MKPiatkowski 2 года назад

I have been trying to get my head around the sound of intervals forever. This is the first time I had something to hook on. Thank you!

@loveyourself4503 Год назад

Im so happy i have found this. Ive been in music scho for 8 years and i never knew how to get rhese right but now i do. I am preparing for audicions for music conservatory and i really needed this. Thank you very much!

@PaulEppleston 2 года назад

I'm on (the older) team Axel F for a Minor 3rd. Coming up in the 80's it was unavoidable!

@benjaminshepard 2 года назад

That one has a bunch of nice clean intervals both up and down, which was a definite help while learning theory 35+ years ago.

@growingsage 2 года назад

As soon as I heard it I started singing it and got distracted

@lev7509 2 года назад

-"Smoke on the Water" for m3-

@jaerivus 2 года назад

Ditto! I also immediately thought of Top Gun for the perfect 5th, and given how the other two examples were movies from 1977 & 1982, I thought for sure he'd incorporate it. Oh well, he's a young one. ;)

@genesis209_gd 2 года назад

No joke, that's what first came to mind for me.

@GigsVT 2 года назад

"Stupid slap bass"... oh no, you've awoken Davie

@applehack97 2 года назад

to be fair, that keyboard did have a terrible slap bass sound

@ISuperI 2 года назад

NOT EPIC

@paulsto6516 2 года назад

@@ISuperI I'm calling the Police.

@radonato 2 года назад

SLAP!

@Stalinshounds 2 года назад

Keyboard vs bass battle!

@PulseTrick 10 месяцев назад

You are a most intelligent young sage. I am very well entertained by your delivery. Kudos fellow musician/musicologist. I have been teaching for decades and you have got the gift! The theory mystery continues...

@Btw_visit_____todacarne-com Год назад

I am just starting with ear training. I was already getting frustrated with telling if it is a 2m or a 2M interval. The easiest case in my training software. I watched only 3:34 min of the video and I decided to try out those two songs. I worked like a charm. I can now tell the difference between a 2m and a 2M intervals in my training software. Thanks !

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

Great!!

@piratefrawgee 2 года назад

Not sure if any other commenters mentioned this, but the YYZ “vamp” you brought up for the Tritone is actually the letters YYZ in Morse code. The dots are the tonic and the dashes are the tritone. As always, great video and thanks for being an awesome music theory resource!!

@DavidBennettPiano 2 года назад

I love Morse code in music! Another example is the Mission Impossible riff which is based on the Morse for "M.I."

@MikeWallaceDev 2 года назад

Rats! I was coming here to say that. I snoozed, I loozed. :-D

@piratefrawgee 2 года назад

@@DavidBennettPiano ooh nice! Future video topic maybe??

@user-fg9xe5kq4q 2 года назад

But Jeff, what about the airport?

@kwarsha 2 года назад

@@DavidBennettPiano The best example I know is "Waves" by the french singer Camille. The background vocals literally sing "dot" and "dash" spelling out "show me the waves". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S0PMZg8lZ-M.html

@DoctorAzmain 2 года назад

This might be one of the MOST USEFUL music-related RU-vid videos I have ever come across. It is pitch perfect (if you'll excuse the pun!) Also fantastic thumbnail! Will be coming back to this again and again when composing, transcribing, recording... and will probably share this with my friends for all eternity hahhaha. P.S. Radiohead's new song If You Say The Word starts with a major third!! (Eb to G, in the key of C minor)

@DavidBennettPiano 2 года назад

Thank you!!!

@miller13ico 2 года назад

Totally agree!

@Philrc 2 года назад

This is a common well known technique for ear training. There's a list online by Earmaster on ascending and descending intervals with you tube URLs.

@miller13ico 2 года назад

@@Philrc you know what's also common, tools like you..

@Philrc 2 года назад

@@miller13ico *yawn* sure kiddy. Some people can't accept information. Like you. They prefer to remain stupid

@martinstebbings2262 2 года назад

I’ve seen a few of your videos …. I’m quickly becoming a fan and enjoying the idea that there’s lots more to see and learn.

@buddybluehat2358 2 года назад

Tenths are great. I love them and I use them. A guitar teacher of mine, Serge Lazarevitch, taught us that tenths somehow almost sound like a chord, rather than just an interval. I can hear what he meant when I use them. Bach wrote fantastic things in tenths, as did so many other classical composers, but those amazing structures can also be found in Paul McCartney's Beatles classic, Blackbird. I also love hearing it in the Foo Fighters' Walking After You. It's a bit of a magical chord-like interval, waiting to be needed as the right addition to the song, or be the basis for a song. Rocking regards to all, BBH

@timclute9507 2 года назад

Back in the 60's my Mom - a music teacher - taught me intervals with songs - I learned the major 6'th as the first two notes of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. We mostly had to use different songs back then - lol

@malindadenlinger882 2 года назад

Can you tell me the si gs she used? I don’t know many of the the songs he’s using

@karricompton 2 года назад

Same. Also the Wedding March for perfect 4th.

@ElleCee62978 2 года назад

This is how I learned in the 1980s. The major 7th was “Somewhere” from West Side Story.

@SanjayMerchant 2 года назад

I'd love to see a companion video where you show some examples of descending intervals. (Since audiating backwards is hard.)

@Shazar789 2 года назад

Good idea. Has one up now

@silvestarmravlincic8996 2 года назад

minor 6th, "Love Story" theme, first two notes

@tiyenin 2 года назад

18:54 Widest vocal interval I've found: P11 up (G3 to C5), Sleeping with Sirens - If You Can't Hang pre-chorus: "There's **the door / Aah**"

@tiyenin 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_UwWYtLWEZg.html

@buzz2735 2 года назад

I grew up being able to do this and I thought it was just something everyone could do. Wow I never knew that it was valued in any way

@comicjohnladams Год назад

This lesson made me smile the whole way through in how crystalized intervals in my mind.

@jaroslaval9159 2 года назад

Ah! How times have changed! When I was in music school this is how we learned them: m2- train sound, M2- beginning of M scale, m3- Brahms Lullaby, M3 From the Halls of Montezuma, P4- Here Comes the Bride, Aug4- Maria(West Side Story) P5-Twinkle Twinkle, m6 Where Do I Begin? (Love Story) M6 My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean or the NBC logo, m7 - There's a Place for Us (West Side Story) M7- Bali Hai (South Pacific). However, for teaching purposes now, new examples would be needed for those who did not grow up with those musicals. Thank you!

@JonesNate 2 года назад

Interesting; I also thought of the NBC jingle, though I'm only 33.

@tammyrobinson6409 2 года назад

LOL these are the songs I use to this day… M7 Bali Hai is not familiar to me but Take on Me is😊 this is a good video

@jaroslaval9159 2 года назад

@@tammyrobinson6409 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-81NROmUb7o0.html the Bali Hai interval is at 42 seconds.

@tammyrobinson6409 2 года назад

@@jaroslaval9159 thank you… I can hear the M7 interval perfectly

@jaroslaval9159 2 года назад

@@tammyrobinson6409 Great!

@thegreatgambeeno 2 года назад

As you were talking about Mad World, you said, "it's going.." and my daughter just blurts out "going nowhere!" and I didn't even know that she knew that song. It was an awesome moment. Thank you for that.

@marianoturienzo6974 Год назад

Dude you’re a World Heritage for humanity in music 🎼! Thank you so much !

@loudvisions9156 2 года назад

So glad this video is my 3000th like on yt. Mind has been thoroughly fed!

@fraser4899 2 года назад

I really appreciate that you went to the effort of naming the intervals in the font and style of the movie poster. That visual cue really helps with my memory

@liquidsolids9415 2 года назад

As soon as you played the minor seventh, I thought “Josie” by Steely Dan. Thanks again!

@andrewcarter1089 2 года назад

So did I.

@wgandy9541 2 года назад

Me too!!! That also kind of shows my age!!!

@thebreakfastmenu 2 года назад

Oh good it wasn't just me.

@ynotw57 2 года назад

Ditto! love that song

@ajhieb 2 года назад

I couldn't think of the name, but as soon as I heard it I was like "That's a Steely Dan song"

@MightyMonk360 Год назад

This video is GOLD !

@DreamsongsProductions 2 года назад

You're a great teacher and very knowledgeable that's why I subscribed. Great info for us musicians and explained in a very informative and concise way. I know plenty of theory but I always learn something more I can use from you. Keep it up!

@sophovot5079 2 года назад

West Side Story is truly a treasure trove of weird intervals, I also use Maria for the tritone

@melanieprice 2 года назад

same "Maria"..."The Simpsons" :D

@es175yes 2 года назад

Maria is perfect for Tritown star… If you’re familiar with the song of course!… The other great one from Westside story is the first two notes of there’s a place for us which I think is called somewhere… That’s great for a minor seventh… There’s a place for us

@WesCoastPiano 2 года назад

"So what I told you was true... From a certain point of view." - David Obi-Wan Kenobi Bennett

@karlmahlmann Год назад

My chorus teacher taught us those tricks back in Jr. High and they've been invaluable over the years. I remember the 4th as the first 2 notes in Here Comes the Bride.

@davespin9034 Год назад

You teach intervals like I was taught in music theory in the early 80s. Association is the best. The Tri-Tone also sounds like scenes in Apocalypse Now. Even your keyboard sounded exactly like that. Nice job!

@richardpike8748 2 года назад

18:52 I believe "Defying Gravity" from the movie "Wicked" has a major 11th in it, between the words "the rules" near the start, in "I'm tired of playing by *the rules* of someone else's game".

@youregonnaletityeetyouaway2882 2 года назад

defying gravity also has a massive leap at the end on the word "down", i dont remember what the interval is exactly but it was drilled into me at gcse haha

@captainphoenix 2 года назад

Star Wars: Perfect fifth. Correct. Empire was the "perfect" "fifth" part.

@Rapidashisaunicorn 2 года назад

Hahaha brilliant! I love it

@HEADBANGEREN 2 года назад

I don't get it??

@gorillaau 2 года назад

The fifth will be with you always.

@graemekennedy2326 2 года назад

@@HEADBANGEREN The Empire Strikes Back is the 5th movie in the series and is considered by many to be the best of the saga.

@HEADBANGEREN 2 года назад

@@graemekennedy2326 cheers

@davidanuoluwa1057 Год назад

This is just pure genius and beautiful... Thanks David

@gustavofring4363 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. It really helped me a lot

@skrijgsman 2 года назад

I was so convinced you'd go for 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac for the minor 7th. The sound matches so well, and it's in the same key too.

@codediporpal 2 года назад

From the instrument selection i though that was he he was going too.

@Nerdifull 2 года назад

Yeah same tbh

@Backburner846 2 года назад

i literally just commented the same thing lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JDG2m5hN1vo.html

@olexiimusicbackgroundsound5881 2 года назад

example for major 10th is scar tissue by red hot chili peppers

@h__n1092 2 года назад

Amazing grace for the fourth!

@threepe0 Год назад

I keep coming back to this video. Very useful thanks!

@gamer966 2 года назад

Damn you played the minor third and I completed it in my mind with Cruel Angels Thesis Great video!

@fshepinc 2 года назад

Great video! I'd love to see a sequel where intervals are compared in ascending and descending forms. Even good musicians are sometimes thrown when they hear an interval moving in the opposite direction to the example they've memorized.

@disgustof-riley8338 2 года назад

^ This! Invaluable sequel

@hman2912 2 года назад

Indeed

@guessWHOOO111 9 месяцев назад

this helps so much omg ty

@jerryharris876 Год назад

16:21. Definitely "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". That is so iconic. I would also do the bass line for the "Duck Tales" Theme Song.

@rfresa 2 года назад

It's interesting to me that minor thirds sound more tense going up (Mad World, Greensleeves), and more resolved coming down (Hey Jude, the Star Spangled Banner), while major thirds sound more consonant going up (When the Saints come Marching in, Kumbaya) and more dissonant coming down (Beethoven's 5th, Imperial March).

@FlorisVerbeij 2 года назад

This has everything to do with the function of the interval within the chord. (Hey Jude is the distance beteeen 5 and 3 of the major chord). This immediately showcases the risk of this method. Be aware of the context.

@hfghguuh 2 года назад

Also Brahms lullaby is a minor third (I think). Kinda funny

@jcovent 2 года назад

Very wise response. Thank you, Bekahoot. I agree.

@moscowguitarman 2 года назад

Those first two notes of Somewhere, with that sound, are SO much like the start of Josie by Steely Dan.

@MrLucasRigby 2 года назад

Yes i noticed that straight away

@JustPlayItLoud 2 года назад

Josie immediately came to mind for me for the minor seventh and octave!

@PianoDentist 2 года назад

That was my go to as well.

@jaschul 2 года назад

So good.

@christ9359 Год назад

John Williams is a master of triumphant music. I guess he has the perfect fifth to thank for that!

@LianDyogi Год назад

I have exams coming up and this is super helpful-thanks so much David!

@alleymikey 2 года назад

There's a tenth in the Star-Spangled banner between "streaming" and "and the rockets' red glare."

@benjirh8934 2 года назад

The major tenth is used in Scar Tissue by RHCP right at the beginning.

@jsherman256 2 года назад

Came here to say the same thing. Iconic riff

@lamasalon8822 2 года назад

Thanks, I was struggling to remember the name of this song - but it was the first example that came into my head as well!

@dee5559 2 года назад

Thanks for that. Therefore would Road Trippin be a minor tenth?

@SubParMechanic Год назад

this was actually super helpful and I've been playing instruments for 8 years, genuinely didn't understand how people knew this but wow its super simple

@natejoenate 2 года назад

What an absolutely fantastic video, I learned a bunch and I'll remember it too! Also the minor 9th is pretty dang cool.

@rharding13 2 года назад

Very well known example of a tenth interval in popular music: the iconic bass line of Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side', recorded by Herbie Flowers. It's actually two separate bass parts, one on upright bass, and one on electric. It's a beautiful interval on bass. I think Indiscipline by King Crimson uses it too (among others), but spread among different instruments.

@mrshankly213 2 года назад

Fully agree, love the tenth on bass! Especially on fretless with some reverb, so mellow.

@ZenMusic3000 2 года назад

This is incredibly helpful. Great channel.

@miaped3701 2 года назад

thanks, this really helped, I've been trying to figure out the best way to tune my timpani, and this helped a lot :)

@Mike98006 2 года назад

The first two notes of Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers is an example of a major 10th interval.

@turbo3922 Год назад

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure since I'm not especially musical.

@willbananas Год назад

Same as Untitled #2 from John Frusciante

@XSpImmaLion Год назад

Yep, I had to go find what music it was so much it bothered me that I couldn't remember the name... xD

@manuelpapo1377 Год назад

Thank you, i love that song

@gen077 Год назад

The only one I could think of!

@GrayStudios 2 года назад

For a major 2nd I would have picked “So This is Love” from Cinderella, it even rocks helpfully back and forth between the 1 and 2.

@7digger3 11 месяцев назад

THANK YOU!! This was brilliant and extremely helpful! 🤯

@MyStudio-io3so Год назад

This is the best channel I have come across for teaching the piano. I don't know what it is but I seem to learn from this as oppose to other channels I have look at.

@danuttall 2 года назад

The octave jump that I remember from my childhood was the beginning of "Hi, Ho" from Diney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. That opening 2 Hi - Ho were the octave jumps.

@nat91307 2 года назад

wait i actually really needed this im taking a music theory exam in december and recognizing intervals is part of it so thank you so much ❤️❤️

@DavidBennettPiano 2 года назад

Great!!

@Bongz.14 2 года назад

All the best 🙌🏽❤️

@Philrc 2 года назад

I'm really surprised your teachers haven't suggested this technique

@nat91307 2 года назад

@@Philrc she has i'd just rather learn about it in video form

@Philrc 2 года назад

@@nat91307 that's silly you don't do ear training in "video form" . This just wants you to pay for something you can do for free. The only way to practice recognising intervals is to do it, not listen to videos

@willbarnett2923 2 года назад

my head is going crazy with so many other examples now, awesome video

@dayradebaugh Год назад

I love your videos. This is an excellent demonstration!

@tamasdonat 2 года назад

For me, perfect fifth is mostly the intro of Chariots of Fire by Vangelis.

@NigelGentry 2 года назад

Me too. I kept getting images of men running along the beach when he was doing the perfect fifth.

@johnwhite2630 2 года назад

David, I’ve seen this elsewhere: teaching each interval by associating it with one particular instance in a well known tune. The problem is, it doesn’t account for how different an interval can sound in different harmonic contexts. Take the minor third. You describe it as “sounding minor” and your supporting example certainly does. But the first two notes of O Canada don’t have that sad, minor sound, and neither do the 2nd-to-3rd notes of Baby Shark, yet they’re both minor thirds. I’m a musician but not a music educator, and I don’t know what a better approach is, but surely there is one. If the goal is being able to follow the structure of melodies, at best this approach doesn’t get you very far, and at worst it might point you in a direction that’s actually unhelpful.

@naritruwireve1381 Год назад

This is exactly how I've been feeling listening to his ear training "remember these songs to remember x" playlist, except I wasn't able to explain why. The songs given as examples sound similar yet so different, so it's been hard for me to grasp it, but I haven't seen other comments saying the same and wondered if it was a me issue. I leave his videos still feeling completely unconfident I'd be able to recognize intervals, chord progressions or such

@Person4649Person Год назад

This is true. If the harmonic context is different, or the interval takes place on different scale degrees, you might not recognize it very well. Unfortunately you either have to get used to how the different intervals sound at different points of the scale, or are able to isolate the sounds in your mind and transpose the scale in your head so that the interval matches the examples you're thinking of. If one was able to easily recognize an interval regardless of the harmony or scale degree, that would likely mean music would be very uncomplicated or not of much interest to us.

@Xan.D144 Год назад

That's always like a blessing to watch your videos, great job, you are the top G at explaining music theory, big support from Mauritius 👏🏾🎩

@MaquiladoraIII 2 года назад

The main intro riff of _Scar Tissue_ has that beautiful major 10th F-A chord.

@gavinmcnabb9125 2 года назад

As well as Santeria by Sublime, B-D#

@vicenteandrade8521 2 года назад

YES!

@Lamadesbois 2 года назад

I thought of it right away! Thanks for posting it.

@ric8248 2 года назад

True, but mind that Frusciante tuned down his B-string to make the interval a PERFECT 10th which is slightly lower than th 10th with equal temperament. There's a great video by Paul Davis explaining this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Daw93bRHe4Y.html

@lucianocalboni5500 2 года назад

@@ric8248 thank you for the link, very interesting video!

@riyuilee295 2 года назад

I’m not even a musician , but I got this video in my recommended , and it’s really interesting and calming .

@clembat51 Год назад

Crystal Clear ! Thanks !!!

@ztaylor1760 10 месяцев назад

This unlocked something in my mind! Thank you so much

@davidarsallo 2 года назад

The moment David played the major 10th I instantly heard Romy singing in my head : "You, you used to have all the answers / And you, you still have them too". Major 10th: The XX's VCR... ♥️