- Hi, and welcome to another
of our name the interval videos
where I've just got five
intervals up here on the board
and it's just a question of naming them.
So if you know about
intervals this will be fine.
It will just give you a bit of practise.
If you don't know about intervals
please don't worry about it at all.
All an interval is the
distance between two notes.
And we just have a way
of naming these in music.
And so we can talk a
bit about that as we go
and if you want to know
more about intervals
I'll point you in the
right direction later on.
So, let's have a look
at the first of our intervals.
Here it is, the lower note is F-sharp,
and the upper note is A.
So the first thing to do
is to try and work out the
number of the interval.
So what's the distance
between F-sharp and A.
And if you're not sure how to do this,
you call the lower note number one
and you just count up.
So don't worry about F-sharp.
It's F something
and we're going F, G, A.
F, G, A, so this is a third.
So if you can tell me that's a third,
you're well on your way to
understanding intervals.
If you're kind of at a further
on stage with intervals
you'll be wanting to say
what kind of third this is.
So I wonder if you can
see what kind of third
we might be dealing with here.
Pause the film at any point
if you want to just think about this.
But it's a third
and I'll tell you now
that it's a minor third.
F-sharp to A is a minor third.
Okay, let's move onto the second interval,
see how you get on with this one.
Now this one looks quite wide, doesn't it?
We've got D at the bottom,
we've got F at the top,
but actually this D is
not just a couple of notes
away from F, it's a long way way isn't it?
So we could do all our counting,
and we could see how many we've got.
So D's number one.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten.
So you can call this a
tenth if you want to.
There's also something else
that you could call it.
So it could be a tenth,
that's perfectly reasonably,
perfectly accurate.
If you want to bring the F down an octave
or bring the D up an octave
you could then say that
it's some kind of third
because D, E, F, is a third.
And when we have intervals
that are bigger than an octave,
we call them compound intervals.
So you could call this a compound third.
So either it's a tenth
or it's a compound third.
Either way perfectly reasonable.
What kind of tenth is it?
Well it's a minor tenth,
or a compound minor third.
Okay, here comes the third interval.
We've got G and the bottom
and we've got D-sharp at the top.
So what's the number?
G, A, B, C, D, it's some kind of fifth.
All right, so it's a fifth.
If you want to know what
sort of fifth it is,
I wonder if you could work that out
if you're into intervals.
And the answer to this is
that it is an augmented fifth.
An augmented fifth.
Okay, let's have a look at the next one
and see if we can see
what's going on here.
Well, let's count up.
A at the bottom, F at the top.
So one, two, three, four, five, six
means that this interval
must be some kind of sixth.
Now for those who want to go on and say
what kind of sixth it is
little bit tricky this one, isn't it,
with A-sharp at the bottom.
So I wonder if you can
work out what it is.
Okay, I'm just going to
give you a moment to pause
and think about that one.
And if you want to pause
the video at this point
to give yourself a bit
of extra thinking time
that's absolutely fine.
But this is a diminished
sixth, a diminished sixth.
Okay, and the last one,
hmm this is looking a bit funny, isn't it?
We'll come back to this sign in a moment.
Let's see if we can do the
number of this interval.
Well it's one, two, three, four.
Some kind of G to some kind of C.
So don't worry about sharps and things,
just think G, A, B, C, that's four.
So this is a fourth.
You're always counting the
lower note as number one
when you do your counting.
As to what kind of fourth it is, well,
here comes the challenge.
What do you think that fourth is?
And again, I'll give you a
moment just to think about it
if you're trying to make the calculation.
Or you might want to pause
and just come back to me
when you've had a chance
to think it through.
Well this is a diminished
fourth, a diminished fourth.
So there we are.
Those are the intervals we have today
and I said that I would explain to you
a little bit more about where
to find help with intervals
if you want to know more about them.
Hopefully even from this
you can see how to do the
counting of the films,
but if you want to know all this stuff
about major and minor and
augmented and diminished
and perfect and all this stuff,
if you go onto the Music Matters website
you'll find a whole load of videos there
on the theory section
covering grades one, two,
three, four, and five,
that gradually unfold the
whole story of intervals.
So by the time you get to grade five
you'll know all the ins and outs
of how to name intervals.
So have a look there
if this is something
you want to know about.
