Back To Basics Piano Lesson Ear Training Intervals

1. Introduction: Welcome back. It's primo piano for you. The faceless wonder whose hands will teach beginners? Back to basics piano lessons. The ultimate brain training to improving your ability to focus for prolonged periods of time and multitasking while doing something fun, like making music on the piano. As a piano teacher for over ten years, coaching students to top marks on RCM piano exams. I'm sharing my ultimate brain training secrets with you. The goal of this lesson is to further your ultimate brain training. Mastering the piano concept of ear training by learning intervals like perfect unison. Minor second, major second, minor third. Major third. Perfect fourth. Perfect fifth. Minor six. Major six. Minor seventh, major seventh. And perfect octave. We'll be using my book, easy back to basics piano music book, otherwise known as less on the piano classic, sold on Amazon to help you be able to master your training and pick out songs even faster. For example, the song twinkle, twinkle little star, found in my book on page 51, is based on the opening interval of a perfect fifth. Your class project will be to add intervals to your musical note flashcards. So let's get started. 2. Intervals: Intervals. An interval is the distance in Pitch between any two notes. There are two ways to classify an interval. It's classified by the size, which is measured by the number of letter names contained in the interval, including both the bottom and the talk notes. For example, this one has a size of three, and this one has a size of five. The interval is also classified using something called quality, which can be major. For example, like this. Minor or Perfect. Perfect unison. Minor second, major second, minor third. Major third. Perfect fourth. Perfect fifth. Minor six. Major six, minor seventh, major seventh. And perfect octave. 3. Major Intervals: Major intervals. Let's learn the major intervals of a major second. C to D, for example. The Major third. C to E, for example. Major six. C to A, for example. And the major seventh, C to B. The Major second. To make learning music easier, I use ear training such as intervals to help me read music faster. Because when you recognize it in your ear, you're able to learn the song faster. For example, the Major Second, I use the familiar song, London bridge is falling down, found on page 21 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book. Because the first two notes, the G and the A, is a major second. So the Major third, for example, the major third is C to E going up. And the Major Third going down is E to C. I use the popular song, Are you sleeping? found on page 31 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano music book. This popular song is also called Frère Jacques. So you see the part E to C that is the Major third. The major six. For example, the major six is C to A, or G to E. G to E is 123456. I use the popular song, My Bonnie Lies over the ocean, found on page 34 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book, to remember what a major six sounds like. Major seventh. For example, C to B. So the size is seven because C is 123467 is B. An example of this, is the song Maria by Leonard Bernstein, in his popular musical West Side Story. So the opening notes are C to B (Mar-i-a). Again, 4. Minor Intervals: Minor intervals. Let's learn the minor intervals of a minor second. For example, E to F, the minor third. For example, B to D. The minor six, for example C to Ab. And the minor seventh, for example C to Bb. Minor second. For example, E to F. A minor second is also called a half-step because it's the two notes that are closest to each other. So for example, C to C sharp is called a half-step, otherwise known as the semitone. I like to remember what a minor second sounds like because I remember the Jaws theme by John Williams. Minor third. For example, a minor third is B to D, because it has a distance of three. Starting on B 123. How I like to remember the minor third is through the song 0 Canada, found on page 55 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book, it sounds like this. So, as you can see, the opening interval is B to D, which is a minor third. Minor six. For example, C to A-flat, 123456. How I like to remember the minor six is using the love story theme, which sounds like this. So this opening minor six going down is what I'm listening for every time I listen to that minor seventh. An example of a minor seventh is C to B flat, 123467. An example of a popular song that helps me remember what a minor seventh sounds like. Is the song Somewhere from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The opening few words are, there's a place for us 5. Perfect Intervals: Perfect intervals, like perfect unison. C-C, perfect fourth C to F, perfect fifth, C to G. And perfect octave. C to high C. Perfect Unison. Unison meaning one. For example, C to C. And it's one because C is the exact same note, so that counts as one. In terms of size. Usually the easiest way to remember perfect unison is that you're playing the exact same note, so you could play two Gs like this. But if you really want to think of a song that you remember, perfect unison sounding like. Think of the opening notes of Happy Birthday, found on page 38 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book. Perfect fourth. An example of a perfect fourth is C to F. And it's 4 because C is 1234. Another example is G to C. How I like to remember the perfect fourth is from the song, The Muffin Man, found on page 40 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book. Perfect fifth. For example, C to G. How I like to remember the perfect fifth is from the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, which can be found on page 51 of my Easy Back to Basics Piano Music Book. So as you can see, the opening interval of F to C is a Perfect fifth Perfect Octave For example, C to C. You can also play this in descending. For example, A to low A. How I like to think of the Perfect Octave is that it's basically the same note, just an octave higher. But you can also think of it using the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. So you notice that the first big interval, the C to the C, is the somewhere. So that's the Perfect Octave. 6. Class Project - Interval Flashcard Song: Class Project. In this class project, you will add intervals, perfect unison. Minor second, major second, minor third. Major third. Perfect fourth. Perfect fifth. Minor six. Major six. Minor seventh. Major seventh. Perfect Octave. To your musical note flashcards. Mix them up and play your interval flashcard song. Here's mine. When you're finished, share your pictures of your completed interval flashcard song and post a video 7. Conclusion: Congratulations. You've now started learning ear training using intervals like the perfect fifth, to pick out popular songs like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. And learn it by ear. Join me, Primopiano4u, the faceless wonder in my next lesson of Back to Basics Piano Lessons. Check out my website, YouTube channel and Amazon book. Easy Back to Basics, Piano Music Book. And Leçon de Piano Classique. For more music resources.