Hearing Intervals

[Noyana]

what are some of the best songs/tricks you use to remember intervals.

i usually can't hear:
M3 vs. m3
m6, m7, M7

just as far as background goes...i've spent the past hour listening to intervals on a website. (specifically m2, M2, m3, M3, Tritone, P5, m6, m7, M7) I've listened to ~500 intervals. just over and over. and i haven't improved.

[Jo Shoe Wah]

Wow that's dedication, i suppose that has to work out eventually.

But songs may be more enjoyable to learn through, though that way you are hearing it in the one key and may get mixed up when trying to hear it in another key.

Can't think of memorable songs for each interval just now but i'll repost with some once i think of it. :)

[Noyana]

thanks. it's not so much as dedication as it is frustrated determination. i'm studying music education, so it's not something that i can really avoid.

and i have memorable songs for most of them. m6 really kills me. as does m7. let me know especially if you get anything for those two.

[Moseph]

what are some of the best songs/tricks you use to remember intervals.

i usually can't hear:
M3 vs. m3
m6, m7, M7

just as far as background goes...i've spent the past hour listening to intervals on a website. (specifically m2, M2, m3, M3, Tritone, P5, m6, m7, M7) I've listened to ~500 intervals. just over and over. and i haven't improved.

Try doing 20 minutes of practice every day. Your ears and brain get tired after about that much time.

[Noyana]

thanks. it actually just clicked. i can't tell you how happy it made me. i still have a long way to go, but they're starting to get in my ear.

(it only took listening to a good 800 intervals online haha)

[Trigger_003]

Don't try too many at once. That's like trying to memorise a whole song at once - you've gotta take it in bits man.

Start out with the... I don't mean more important ones, but I'll say that because I can't think of what else to call them. 8ve, M3, m3, P4, P5, M6. Perfect unison should be pretty obvious.

Musictheory.net allows you to choose which ones are played an which aren't.

For major and minor 3rds, I just used to think in terms of arpeggios. P5 = superman/starwars, P4 is always our national anthem but I don't think that helps you..., 8ve = somewhere over the rainbow. M2 = major scale, m2 = jaws or just a semitone, tritone = the simpsons (where "the simpsons" is sung at the very start, not the actual music - that's a major 3rd)... uh I can't think of any others... I don't really reference to songs too much, I'm just trying to remember what people get told in music. I'll try find my folder if I brought it home. Maybe I wrote them down for some reason.

Anyway, once you get those ones I mentioned down, even if you can't recognise the others straight off, you can work them out. For instance, if you've got a minor 6th, but you don't know it, you can guess that it sounds near to a perfect 5th, sing the perfect 5th, and then sing up in semitones until you reach the note. This particular case will only take you up one semitone from a perfect 5th, and with your leet haxor theory knowledge you can then derive that it's probably a minor 6th.
Some intervals like major 7th, that's probably one of the best approaches for (just think a semitone down from an octave) unless you can just think "argh" and associate the interval with that.

[Jo Shoe Wah]

Pink Floyd - Young Lust

The guitar riff

|----------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------3-----------------------------------|
|---------------2/4----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----0----0-----------------------------------------------|

------E----E----A-B----D

------1----1----4-5----m7


Best i can think of for m7 right now sorry. I'll have a look around for m6

[Trigger_003]

Nup, I obviously got sick of writing them down because I only got up to P5s. However, I do have a handout...
m6: The entertainer - Scott Joplin
m7: Somewhere - L. Bernstein & S. Sondheim
... I have no idea either tbh :lol:

[Seafroggys]

I never hear intervals, I always hear notes.

Damn my perfect pitch!

[Trigger_003]

Damn my perfect pitch!
You don't mean it

[the_uber_penguin]

I wish I had perfect pitch.

[Alive]

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/macgamut_theory/songs_interval_recognize.html

Now I am the all powerful helper! Fear my Wrath!

[Trigger_003]

Haha
M7: I Love You (?)
P8: I Love You (The Other One)

Nice, nice.

/fears wrath

So you're Simon the White now? :p

[CabbageStabbage]

I can hear intervals well, because I trained for a long time on guitar and everything.

Can anyone else here recognize chord progressions? I can recognize I-V, I-IV, and i-VI pretty much instantly.

here's one:

For minor 7th: Can't Stop by RHCP. First 2 notes of the main riff.

[DrunkRock]

You might want to check out ear training software.

I'm currently using Ear Master Pro 5.0

www.earmaster.com

[Aus_rock_god]

Don't panic.

You tend to only recognise intervals you use a lot.

Most guitarists can recognise 4th, 5ths and 8ves without trying, because we use them for tuning and powerchords.