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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-12-10 16:40
List 'em. I'll get it started with a few off the top of my head that I use.
Minor 2nd - Theme from JAWS
Major 2nd - "Doe . . A Dee. A Female Deer" (between "Do" and "A")
Major 3rd - Same song as above, the word "female"
Octave - Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
(I can't remember the rest off the top of my head. I used to figure it out by mentally doing a chromatic and remember the start and end pitch and where on the chromatic they lied. I don't have PERFECT pitch, but I have very good relative pitch and this helped me a lot.)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Connor
Date: 2005-12-10 17:30
Maj 2--Trill for Rapsodie in Blue
min 3--Brahms Lulaby
Maj 3--Just think of a Major Triad...Do Mi Sol
P 4-----Here Comes the Bride
P5------Star Wars, Take the A Train
min 6--
Maj 6--the theme for NBC
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-12-10 18:57
Bob Phillips wrote:
> Kool,
>
> but they're all (mostly) "songs."
>
Evil! You are EVIL to bring that up again!!!!!!!!
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-12-10 19:01
Minor 7th- "There's------m7--------a place...." (from some song; I dunno. we talked about it in AP Theory at school).
P5- Super-man!
The only way I can get a m6 is to think of a P5 first, then try to hear what the minor 6th would be.
Also for M6- "somewhere over the rainbow AND-----M6-----FAR away...."
(I think)
That's all I know. Hopefully someone will come up with something for m6. I couldn't open Bennett's file for some reason.
-Tyler
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2005-12-10 19:27
Minor 6th - theme from "Love Story" if you're old enough to remember it. ("Where do I begin...")
Major 6th - "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean".
Major 7th - "Maria", from West Side Story ("A Place for Us" is from West Side Story, too).
Sue Tansey
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Author: Burt
Date: 2005-12-10 23:13
Two cents more:
Augmented 4th up: "Cool" from West Side Story
Minor 7th up: "A Place for Us" "
Major 3rd down: Beethoven's 5th
Perfect 4th up: "Taps"
Perfect 4th down: "L'Arlesienne Suite"
Major 6th up: "'A' Train"
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2005-12-10 23:21
Aug 4th...the Simpsons...little ditty sung in harmony 'The Simpsons....'
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-12-11 00:37
Major 3rd down: Dradle song (the words dradle, dradle, dradle....) Also when people say "Ding, dong" like a doorbell, it's usually a major 3rd down. (These are THE WORST for me to sight sing!)
Perfect 4th up: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter (the first 2 notes).
Also, practice your Major scales on the clarinet to get all the intervals ascending and descending (also do it in minor): 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 8-7, 8-6, 8-5, 8-4, 8-3, 8-2, 8-1. (C-D, C-E, C-F, C-G, C-A, C-B, C-C, C-B, C-A, C-G, C-F, C-E, C-D, C-C).
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2005-12-11 02:55
Canadians have an advantage with the minor 3rd - "Oh Canada".
How about "Twinke twinkle little star" for a major 5th?
And to determine a major second I always would just sing up a few notes of a major scale to see if it fit.
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2005-12-11 04:25
alright Burt mentioned the idea that intervals decend also. I've notice that occurs almost 50% of the time!
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-12-11 04:39
In my opinion the best way to recognize intervals, is just recognizing them. Some people are very telneted at those sorts of things (and I don't mean people with perfect pitch), I'm not one of them, but I pretty much recognize every interval in a couple of seconds or less.
What I did is play one note on the piano, chose an interval and sang the other note, then checked if I was right. five minutes of that a day and I saw a big improvement after a short time. I also had someone play intervals for me to recognize (the two notes were played at the same time, not one after the other).
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2005-12-11 09:10
All very well clarnibass, you practised...and learned.
This method of using well known tunes is simply a form of practise. I'm now confident of knowing my intervals, but did use this method to learn.
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Author: davedmg
Date: 2005-12-11 21:59
This is an excellent FREE site for learning intervals and learning perfect pitch: http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer. -- Old Dave, Still Trying After All These Years.
Post Edited (2005-12-11 22:01)
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Author: clarispark
Date: 2005-12-12 02:19
My ear-training teacher handed out a sheet on some tunes for recognizing intervals at the beginning of the semester. If anyone would me to email it to them, send me an email. It's just too tedious to type it here right now.
"I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know." --Acker Bilk
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Author: Markael
Date: 2005-12-13 15:17
Questions/corrections to Connor regarding perfect 5th.
Star Wars? The pick-up triplets to the downbeat is a fourth. Leaving off the triplets, the first two long tones in the melody constitute a fifth.
A Train: The first two notes of the melody are a major 6th.
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Author: Markael
Date: 2005-12-13 15:56
It might be helpful to explore the reasons why some people become so easily confused with intervals, even with these aids.
I think the main reason has to do with keys, as in center of pitch.
People are often confused about the difference between major and minor
chords versus major and minor intervals. People often get the sound of a major chord in their head and think that a major interval should invoke that same sound.
For instance: The melody of Brahms Lullaby begins with a minor third, as has been mentioned. Well, the melody of Greensleeves begins with the same interval, but the song is in a minor key.
To sing Brahms Lullaby in the key of C, you have C in your head as the center of pitch, and so the E to G melody would suggest the sound of a C major chord. To sing Greensleeves in E minor you would hold E in your head, and the interval would suggest E minor.
Does anyone remember the TV game show "Name that Tune?"
Many years ago I played Name that Tune with a church youth group, using hymns. I played the first four notes of "He Leadeth Me." One guy in the group swore up and down that I played "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and he couldn't be convinced otherwise.
He Leadeth Me goes like this: 5 - 3 - 2 - 1.
Sweet Hour of Prayer: 1 - 3 - 4 - 5.
The rhythm of the two is not identical, but somewhat similar.
Both outline the tonic major chord; one goes down; the other goes up.
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Author: OmarHo
Date: 2006-01-07 22:00
http://www.keystrokepublishing.com/html/comprehensive_ear_training_tip.html
That website has a lot of tips and has lists of songs or tunes to help. I found it helpful.
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Author: Pathik
Date: 2006-01-08 09:01
I've been working with Bruce Arnold's books on ear training over the last few months, and his method has definitely had a positive impact on my ear and my ability to recognise pitch, and thus on my ability to improvise. I play jazz so improving one's relative pitch (which is what his ear training method does) is really important. According to BA's teaching method, recognising intervals through memorising the start of certain tunes is not very helpful, because it's not really a method that can be used while you are actually playing, quite simply because you won't have the time for it. Anyway, the way he teaches this is that one should learn what each note sounds like in relation to the key centre. For example, a minor third is a minor third regardless of what key you're in, so once you know what the sound of a minor third is, so that you can instantly recognise it when you hear it and also sing it, you will no longer need to know that this or that tune starts with a minor third interval. If you're interested in Bruce Arnold's work, go to www.muse-eek.com He also gives extensive help online for anyone with questions. Maybe I should also mention that I'm not affiliated with Bruce Arnold in any way, I'm just someone who has found his teaching methods for ear training to be very valuable.
Pathik
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