[nagukush]

Hi Friends !

I hope everything is well and that everyday had a Great New year !
Its been a long time since I visited the forum....

Just wanted to get some help on Identifying Intervals -

Is it efficient to start recognizing and remembering intervals using the common technique of relating them to familiar songs ? I mean wont this make one dependent on recalling the song (in advanced stages) or will it just fade away and the Interval Quality will stay ?

Kindly advice on this and if yes - Can you please give me a few common examples of such "Song examples" for Interval Identification?

I personally could figure out only the following and if you all could share yours, I guess we'll have a good collection for learners like me -

Maj 2nd - Titanic Theme, 500 Miles, Major Scale

Maj 3rd - Doe a Deer (Sound of Music) , I just called to say I love you (Steve Wonder)

Perfect 4th - Love me Tender - Aura Lee

Perfect 5th - Metallica - ONE (the very first Starting Guitar part), Top Gun Theme

Kindly advice if my choices are ok and please advice a few more for P5ths and for the others too.

Take care everybody and Have a Nice Day !
Lots of Regards and Care
Kush

[marinoFret]

I use the same method...

[scotty_b]

This was on Wikipedia, but there are a lot of other sites around with similar information

0: Unison: Happy Birthday To You (the two notes of "happy")
1: Minor second: Theme from Jaws, opening of Für Elise
2: Major second: Frere Jacques
3: Minor third: the Olympic Fanfare and Theme (heard as the first brass notes in the fanfare) which plays at the beginning of NBC Olympic broadcasts, Somewhere Out There, Greensleeves, O Canada,"Hey Jude"- The Beatles
4: Major third: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Summon the Heroes (the 1996 Olympic theme, heard on NBC during Olympic broadcasts), Kumbaya, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,
5: Perfect fourth: Auld Lang Syne ("Should Auld..."), the wedding song ("Here comes the bride"), The Eyes of Texas (University of Texas Alam Mater), O Christmas Tree, Amazing Grace
6: Tritone: "Maria" and "Cool", from West Side Story, theme from The Simpsons
7: Perfect fifth: Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss) (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey), Hey There, Georgie Girl, the theme from Chariots of Fire (before the main melody), the main theme from Star Wars [first two notes] or Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (between the first and second twinkles), the main theme from E.T.
8: Minor sixth: Scott Joplin's The Entertainer (Main theme after the intro), Across the Stars from Star Wars, Someday My Prince Will Come (when she sings some-day) or the theme from Love Story
9: Major sixth: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, or the NBC theme
10: Minor seventh: Somewhere, from West Side Story, Theme from Star Trek: The Original Series
11: Major seventh: a-Ha's Take On Me, or the first and third notes of Somewhere Over the Rainbow
12: Octave: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath