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Piano Quickie 3 Intervals Explained
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In the third installment of the Piano Quickie series I'll explain what is the meaning of the different musical intervals often mentioned in music theory (second, third, fourth, tritones, etc). For the full Piano Quickie playlist, click here: • • Piano Quickie: Bite-Sized Piano Lessons • The Piano Quickie series is aimed at beginning musicians who want to get a grasp of the fundamental points of music theory: notes, intervals, chords, chord inversions, scales and so forth. Made of short but richly illustrated piano lessons and tutorials, this series is ideal for teaching the basics of piano theory and playing without becoming overwhelming on the one hand, or too slow and boring on the other. • Music Intervals Explained • As explained in a previous Piano Quickie tutorial, the distance between notes is measured in semitones. Music theory has simply given different names to different distances, often more than one name. These are: • 0 semitones = perfect unison = diminished second • 1 semitone = minor second = augmented unison • 2 semitones = major second = diminished third • 3 semitones = minor third = augmented second • 4 semitones = major third = diminished fourth • 5 semitones = perfect fourth = augmented third • 6 semitones = tritone = augmented fourth = diminished fifth • 7 semitones = perfect fifth = diminished sixth • 8 semitones = minor sixth = augmented fifth • 9 semitones = major sixth = diminished seventh • 10 semitones = minor seventh = augmented sixth • 11 semitones = major seventh = diminished octave • 12 semitones = perfect octave = augmented seventh • That's all there is to it! Honest :). Just memorize those interval names and you'll be good to go. • Some intervals are more pleasing to the ear than others. Example: • 1. Play C and G together. These are a perfect fifth apart, and sound quite pleasing. • 2. Play C and C# together. These are a minor second apart, and sound somewhat displeasing. • There are all sorts of psychoacoustic and physical reasons for that, but roughly, the more pleasing intervals are the octave and perfect fifth and fourth. Then maybe the major and minor sixth and third. Then ... it all goes downhill from there. • What do those Augmented and Diminished Intervals Mean? • As you've probably noted from the table above, some interval names have an augmented or diminished suffix. Diminished usually means lowered by a semitone and augmented usually means raised by a semitone . WHAT precisely is lowered and raised requires some caution. For example: • 1. An augmented fifth is simply a perfect fifth (7 semitones) raised by 1 semitone (to 8 semitones). A diminished fifth is a perfect fifth (7 semitones) lowered by 1 semitones (to 6 semitones). So, here, diminished and augmented refer to the SAME perfect fifth interval. • 2. An augmented third is a MAJOR third (4 semitones) raised by 1 semitone (to 5 semitones). A diminished third is a MINOR third (3 semitones) lowered by 1 semitones (to 2 semitones). So, here, diminished refers to the MINOR third while augmented refers to the MAJOR third. • So, if an interval has major and minor variants, such as the third, second or sixth, diminished will refer to the minor variant while augmented will refer to the major variant. • From Wikipedia: What Are Intervals? • In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord. • In Western music, intervals are most commonly differences between notes of a diatonic scale. The smallest of these intervals is a semitone. Intervals smaller than a semitone are called microtones. They can be formed using the notes of various kinds of non-diatonic scales. Some of the very smallest ones are called commas, and describe small discrepancies, observed in some tuning systems, between enharmonically equivalent notes such as C? and D?. Intervals can be arbitrarily small, and even imperceptible to the human ear. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval... • • Other Related Videos and Playlists • Here are other interesting playlists from my channel which group together my different piano lessons by theme/category: • Reading Sheet Music for Beginners: a 4-Part Series • • Reading Sheet Music for Beginners • Inspiring Piano Harmony, Chord and Voicing Tips and Tricks: • • Inspiring Piano Harmony, Chord and Vo... • Exercises for Developing Piano Technique • • Piano Exercises for Developing Techni... • The 2-5-1 Harmonic Progression: a 4-Part Series • • Playlist
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