![]() ![]() Most listeners would not even notice the difference, unless you played it in both keys, one right after the other.Īll minor keys are also heard by most listeners as interchangeable, but there are important differences between major keys and minor keys. If someone really wants the piece to be in a different key (because it's easier to sing or play in that key, or just because they want it to sound higher or lower), the whole thing can be transposed, but the only difference that would make (in the sound) is that the entire piece will sound higher or lower. The thing that matters is not what note you start on, but how all the notes are related to each other and to the "home" note (the tonic) of the key. Since all major keys are so similar, a piece in a major key will sound almost exactly the same whether you play it in C major or D major. If you play four chords in a row, they can tell you that you played a tonic-subdominant-dominant seventh-tonic (I-IV-V7-I) chord progression.įortunately, having relative pitch is good enough, and for many musicians may even be more useful than perfect pitch, because of the way Western music is conceived. In other words, if you play two notes, they can tell you that one of them is a major third higher than the other. However, most musicians can be trained to recognize relative pitch. (For more on this subject, you may want to look up Robert Jourdain's Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures our Imagination.) This is an unusual skill that even most trained musicians do not have, and research seems to suggest that if you don't have it at a very early age, you cannot develop it. A few musicians with particularly perceptive ears can even tell you that a piano is tuned a few cents higher than the one that they play at home. These people, when they hear music, can tell you exactly what they are hearing: the G above middle C, for example, or the first inversion of an F minor chord. The term ear training refers to teaching musicians to recognize information about notes and chords just by hearing them.Ī few people have what is called perfect pitch or absolute pitch. When musicians talk about ear, they don't mean the sense organ itself so much as the brain's ability to perceive, distinguish, and understand what the ear has heard. If you have suggestions for new songs to include, please go to the Interval Song Examples forum and post a comment.Įach song includes a link to a video example hosted on YouTube, with the sole purpose of providing a musical excerpt to illustrate each interval.\) Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast *2nd and 3rd There's no business like show business (Ethel Merman) Harry's Wondrous World - Harry Potter (John Williams) ![]() Somewhere over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz) Somewhere over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz) *1st and 3rd pitchīali Hai (South Pacific) *1st and 3rd pitch The Shadow of your Smile (Ella Fitzgerald) Pure imagination - Chocolate Factory (1st & 3rd tones) The Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera) Man In the Mirror chorus (Michael Jackson) You make me feel brand new (The Stylistics) It came upon a midnight clear (Christmas) Princess Leia's Theme - Star Wars (John Williams) The Last of the Mohicans - Promontory (Trevor Jones) Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (John Mayer) Swan Lake Suite (Op.20) - Scene (Tchaikovsky) 2: Farandole (Bizet)Ĭan't Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley)ĭer er et yndigt land (Danish national anthem)ĭon't You (Forget About Me) (Simple Minds) Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein) 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah Someday My Prince Will Come (Disney/Snow White) The Force Theme - Star Wars (John Williams) Here comes the Bride - Wedding March (Wagner) ![]() Man in the Mirror verse (Michael Jackson) While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Nightįrom the Halls of Montezuma (Marines' Hymn) Sweet Child O' Mine - Bass riff intro (Guns N' Roses) What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter) They don't care about us (Michael Jackson) The Star-Spangled Banner (US national anthem)Ĭan You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John) Uematsu)Ĭome to me (Fantine's Death) - Les MiserablesĬomptine d'un autre Été (Amélie Poulain Soundtrack) Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Goneįinal Fantasy 7, Aerith's theme (N. Sally's Song (Nightmare Before Christmas) Unchained Melody (Les Baxter Orchestra 1955) Whistle While You Work (Disney/Snow White) The Two Towers -The Lord of the Rings (Theme) Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (Bach) There Will Never Be Another You (Nat King Cole) Linus and Lucy - "Peanuts Theme" (Vince Guaraldi) I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey) ![]() The Barber of Seville (Gioachino Rossini) I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett) New World Symphony, 4th movement (Dvořák) ![]()
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