So starting with your major second.
Here are some songs that probably everybody knows and I'll be playing the melodies a little bit here
and this is going to help you memorize these intervals.
So for a major second I am going to use the song " Yankee Doodle."
That's the very beginning of that melody.
"Yankee doodle went to town riding on a pony stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni."
The very first distance between two notes is a major second.
So whenever you are trying to think of what a major second sounds like sing the first part of " Yankee Doodle."
A major third. Major third.
A major third is " Oh when the saints."
" Oh when the saints go marching in oh when the saints go marching in."
So whenever you think of a major third or whenever you think of that song "Oh when the saints."
Those first two notes are a distance of a major third.
A perfect fourth.
I like to use the song "Amazing Grace."
" Amazing grace how sweet the sound. "
So the very first two notes there perfect fourth. "Amazing Grace."
Perfect fifth. I don't necessarily use a song to figure out what it is but what I will do is:
in a lot of old movies there is a horn line that people will play and I think
they did this in " Monty Python and the Holy Grail " or something like that where they have this horn line and it sounds like this…
So for me I just kind of have this "Da Da Da Da Da Da" in my head and that helps me remember a perfect fifth.
A major sixth is the old song that probably a lot of us got sung when we were going to bed as little kids and that's "My bonnie lies over the ocean."
Major sixth.
"My bonnie lies over the ocean, My bonnie lies over the sea."
Then finally a major seven.
Someone on live Q and A actually brought this to my attention this is really cool and it's part of the Superman soundtrack.
" Superman theme song."
That's the end part of that and that is a major seven.
Sing the end of that "Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da" and that will give you the sound of a major seven.
Once you guys have worked through this lesson in a few weeks we are going to have a little quiz that's going to show up on the internet.
Basically intervals will be played and you will have the opportunity to take this quiz.
Test your ear, train your ear.
Pour through this lesson and there have been quite a few other lessons on intervals lately on the website.
Pour through all of these.
Ear training and being able to recognize intervals whether you're playing them or just hearing them is very important.
Really pour through some of these things and make sure you take the quiz in a few weeks.
Have a good rest of your day.