Intervals: The Easy Way!!

[@butterflywing61]

Here's why that root 5th sounds so good. Take A = 110hz and the next octave 220hz. Mid point is 165hz. The note / frequency chart gives E (fifth) = 164.814hz. I like to call the fifth the octave within the octave. Add lots of distortion and you get all those great harmonics and overtones. Great lesson BTW thanks!

[@curiousguitarist]

Great comment! Thanks!

[@125grizzle]

Great lesson Chris. You have a great knack for finding “Lightbulb” moments in guitar teaching. A lot of your lessons have me saying “oh…now I get it!” Thanks and keep up the good work.

[@curiousguitarist]

My pleasure! Love the old chevy pup! Beauty!

[@pauljenkins8677]

Haven't watched this yet, but I'm gonna go ahead and thank you, your content is always gold. Best guitar teacher on youtube!

[@curiousguitarist]

Thank you very much, Paul. I appreciate that!

[@sjowens2413]

The Web is loaded with guitar teachers but only a few make sense .You're very good at this.Thankyou.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@sjowens2413 that means a lot to me, thank you. I’m glad you’re here and getting some value from these lessons

[@balthebat]

Really clear. Thank you for explaining it this way

[@curiousguitarist]

@@balthebat you bet!

[@martynh4414]

What an excellent way to explain it all. I’ve struggled off and on for years….. Thanks for such clarification.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@martynh4414 you are so welcome!

[@venturaVlogger]

Very basic scale lesson, but can overwhelm your brain, yet it can drastically improve your playing thanks so much watching from ventura california

[@curiousguitarist]

@@venturaVlogger hey Ventura! Born in Long Beach myself. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@dkelley9661]

Smart construct! Use something most players already know and use, and give them a context for it, an appropriate description for what it is, how it functions. Intervals are a simple way to learn about relationships of things you already play, use, know about. Ear training coupled with learning intervals is very powerful; being able to hear and identify intervals (by ear) will help to learn songs, solos, or eventually its critical in improvising musically.

[@JRW66]

Excellent lesson! Understanding the term Perfect 4th and 5th with stability is fascinating. Goes back hundreds of years in classical music. Really cool how you presented it with the maj and min pentatonics.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@JRW66 thanks! I’ve never seen intervals explained this way, and so I thought it might be perfect for guitarists.

[@sharimonnier3888]

First time seeing one of your videos. I love and appreciate how you really break down all this great theory. I will definitely be watching this a few times to get all the goodness out of it! I’m certain this will take my playing to a new level! Thank you!

[@curiousguitarist]

You are so welcome. Glad you for the channel!

[@EtzeNuegez]

Great lesson, thanks dude!

[@curiousguitarist]

Of course!

[@CatherineStrong-m1h]

You’ve really simplified this topic in the best way possible.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@CatherineStrong-m1h so glad this landed well for you, Catherine

[@davidcrabb8516]

Another great lesson 👍 the way you explain and break stuff down is top class

[@curiousguitarist]

@@davidcrabb8516 glad you enjoyed this one, David. Thanks for being here!

[@tone-glide2402]

Always great stuff here !!! Thanks Chris for always showing us just what we need!

[@curiousguitarist]

@@tone-glide2402 thank you tone!!

[@JosephCompton66]

What a great lesson. You really helped explain this.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@JosephCompton66 so glad this landed well for you Joseph. Glad you’re here!

[@jessprice1518]

Hey man, that was super simple! I did it the hard way and ate my broccoli!! This would have been way easier! I love the content man 👍

[@curiousguitarist]

@@jessprice1518 thanks Jess! Glad you’re here!

[@joycegrove5602]

Great lesson, thanks Chris!

[@curiousguitarist]

My pleasure, JG!

[@waynegram8907]

It would be nice if you made a lesson about how EVH Eddie Van Halen used Intervals because he would use intervals as symmetrical shapes. The guitar solo for JUMP the ending scalar run is a symmetrical shape based on intervals and the keyboard solo section

[@curiousguitarist]

Very cool, Wayne.

[@waynegram8907]

@@curiousguitarist ya I think EVH used 4 to 6 "note groupings" and would shift up or down in a symmetrical shape interval which was influenced by Allan Holdsworth

[@rustyshackleford9557]

@@waynegram8907 yep, it is basically playing a " lick" (for example in A) now move down 5 frets ( thats a fourth) and play the same lick. ....etc...two more frets and you have the V. The idea is used a lot by country players too.... Of course you could drop down one string instead of staying on the same string and moving up 5 frets.

[@TubeDu0815]

Your way of teaching is great!

[@curiousguitarist]

@@TubeDu0815 thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed this one!

[@pjsecondaccount]

Must say i do love these guys thumbnails every time ❤

[@curiousguitarist]

@@pjsecondaccount ha! Thanks!!!

[@SelfSealingStemBolt]

Amazing teacher! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you!!!

[@curiousguitarist]

@@SelfSealingStemBolt you are so welcome!!

[@jamesanderson9191]

Great way to start my weekend! Thanks

[@curiousguitarist]

You bet, James!

[@bluffhavenstudios]

Thank you Chris

[@curiousguitarist]

Very welcome!

[@thaiduongnguyen9676]

I do not know this clip corresonding to my last comment, which is abt the intervals and its shape on guitar, on your chanel or not? But this is what I want to know for now, thank Chris. Another other great one to watch and learn. Cheer!

[@curiousguitarist]

Yeah I read all those comments before I made the video, so yeah, that probably did factor in :) Glad you enjoyed it!

[@astrologyambience240]

Nice, thank you Chris

[@curiousguitarist]

Of course!

[@deepakrebentisch9173]

Excellent lesson imagine if we had such teachers to teach maths and science

[@curiousguitarist]

@@deepakrebentisch9173 thanks Deepak!

[@kdavis63]

My next practice session coming up!!! Mahalo Chris!

[@curiousguitarist]

Thanks KD!

[@splashesin8]

😊Thanks Chris!

[@stephenmahlstedt7276]

Good stuff! I’m looking forward to more videos about intervals.

[@curiousguitarist]

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[@chabbytreemechanic1731]

Awesomeness 🎉

[@curiousguitarist]

Ha! Glad you enjoyed this one!

[@johnCjr4671]

Sensibly Well done !

[@curiousguitarist]

@@johnCjr4671 glad you enjoyed it!

[@hammster8255]

Thanks Chris. Awesome insight into intervals. I could hear some zeppelin notes/sound from the Kashmir intro when you went through the scale at 8.20. Time to get curious. Regards Phil

[@curiousguitarist]

Yeah baby! YEAH!

[@jamesreeves9740]

Thanks that filled in some blind spots in a very utilizing way.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@jamesreeves9740 good deal! Glad you enjoyed it, James.

[@wjbailey7210]

Excellent lesson as always! I'm looking forward to more on intervals, such as 9th thru 13th! Some players bounce right to them, but I'm not there yet.

[@curiousguitarist]

Take a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWm9o5Jvo7N0jas Hearing the R 3rd and 5th is an important start, then the 7th. Once you can hear, see, and control THESE, then moving onto the 9 and above is a lot easier :)

[@Nicolae8607]

​I didn't finish the video because I am at work and tired and I want to understand your lesson..but reading the comments I just had the light bulb moment were you said learn to hear R 3rd 5th😮..makes perfect sense Thank you..I just start to study music theory because I feel I don't progress anymore and I want to understand more than just using pentatonics scales I know that is very imp to learn the notes on the fretbord to.​@@curiousguitarist

[@wjbailey7210]

@curiousguitarist I hear the 3rd and the 5th as these are most often occurring and same in major and minor. The 7th is fairly easy for me as well, although a little harder as it changes between major and minor scales. I am familiar with scales in the ionic mode, major and minor, and the pentatonic scales of it as well, but switch modes and I lose my ear for the intervals. What mode would you recommend that I learn next? My musical focus is primarily Rock and metal (the more progressive the better), but i also enjoy classical guitar and everything in between.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@wjbailey7210 as far as modes go I’d suggest Dorian and Mixolydian to start

[@Rickster6118]

Yeah man!🎸

[@freesk8]

Very helpful! Thanks! :)

[@curiousguitarist]

You bet!

[@WeeJoePrice]

Brilliant .... 😎

[@curiousguitarist]

@@WeeJoePrice thanks, Joe!!!

[@iamgumbydammit2217]

Interesting and understandable, but I have no idea what to do with this information on a practical basis. Can you do a follow up video that takes us further?

[@curiousguitarist]

We all struggle with "yeah, but; how to I apply this musically?" Imagine asking an athlete that question in the gym. "Nice dead lift there, but how will you use that out on the field?" My point is that, as a musician, one of your charges is to understand and deploy musical concepts. You simply do that better the more you integrate them onto your instrument. The more you apply concepts to the fretboard the more easily you'll be able to move along it, find chords, scales, phrases, and play ANYTHING more easily, ANYWHERE on the neck. "Going further" in this instance is simply increasing your command of the instrument. While it may seem far away, that "command" will allow you to play more fluidly and develop your ear faster.

[@bilarion]

Here's an idea on how to use this knowledge. First find a solo or a part of a song that you really like. Then find the key that song is in. Then go to the specific part of the solo/part that you love, it might be a single note, or a group of notes. Lastly, figure out the interval of that note that you love in relation to the root note. Now you can practice targeting that note while improvising/songwriting. You will also learn to recognize that interval in other solos that you happen to use that. Essentially it's like deconstructing a recipe that you love, finding out the key materials that make it tasty for you, then using those materials in your own recipes. The intervals are a way to describe/categorize these materials.

[@SilasPath]

I like it

[@curiousguitarist]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the views and comments.

[@piktormusic2538]

I agree with this concept of using something familiar to understand intervals. I like that you are establishing building blocks that can be applied in every key. However, instead of using three different structures to understand intervals, why not just use one? You may be right in assuming that most guitar players are more familiar with power chords and pentatonic scales, but that doesn’t have to be so. I am a piano player who taught himself to play guitar and I started with learning major scales, so that I can easily look at a fret board and know the note names of every fret for every string. I think of the pentatonic scales as subsets or derivations of major scales. In fact, I understand most scale and chord theory based on an understanding of major scales. As a teacher and a student, I learned and taught intervals from their relationship to the major scale. I never bothered memorizing the number of semitones in every interval. Build a major scale from any note and if the second note of the interval fits in that major scale, then it is either major or perfect. The interval number is always derived from the scale degree. Seventh not of the scale? It is some kind of seventh, etcetera. Then learn/teach minor, diminished and augmented intervals based on the second note’s relationship to the major scale. One fret short of the third scale degree = augmented second or minor third, depending on what name you give that second note. Again, etcetera.

[@curiousguitarist]

Great comment. That is how I approach it too. These videos are designed to open doors for guitar players who may or may not be familiar with the major scale architecture (which is arguably the most critical structure to understand if you are to plot real meaningful growth as a musician on ANY instrument). And as such I take liberties to simply "not" show relationships that will be formative at a later time. Thank you for being here!

[@piktormusic2538]

@ I understand. Thanks for the reply.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@piktormusic2538 of course!

[@TheRealBalloonHead]

Octaves first, without question the most important thing to learn to unlock the fretboard.

[@curiousguitarist]

So very true! Once you get the concept that EVERY SINGLE NOTE is in-between that octave, your curiosity has room to just explode!

[@chriscantor6329]

IMO thinking intervals rather than patterns is so liberating.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@chriscantor6329 I could not agree more, Chris!

[@joeurbanowski321]

❤👍🏼

[@Hayden-sp1ol]

Aloha

[@curiousguitarist]

@@Hayden-sp1ol aloha, and mahalo!!

[@rustyshackleford9557]

Thank you for teaching. It is so frustrating to try to invite a player up to sit in and telling them the song has a IIm and they just look clueless. Us old blues players are used to no rehearsals and a front man who can wave a few fingers for the changes. But young'ns seem oblivious. Two fingers ain't a II minor to them. It is a peace sign. Lol

[@curiousguitarist]

"no rehearsals and a front man who can wave a few fingers for the changes" Brings back great memories!!

[@rustyshackleford9557]

@@curiousguitarist You are a blessing for a lot of folks. Once they learn those single note intervals, and learn what makes a chord they no longer have to rely on memory for chord shapes. Kids! This young man is GIVING you some of the most important stuff a guitarist needs. ...put some $$ in his tip jar!

[@curiousguitarist]

@@rustyshackleford9557 ha!! Love it! Thank you.

[@ErnieLeblanc]

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[@curiousguitarist]

I hope you get some action there, Ernie.

[@JamesSmith-qj9kd]

I don’t know what an interval is but after 60 yrs of playing, I can play almost anything i want to on guitar or piano. So fer me please define an interval. 😂

[@curiousguitarist]

@@JamesSmith-qj9kd it’s already in the video, but here it is again: An interval defines the distance and difference in pitch between two notes. Hope that helps!

[@GlennGoryl]

Icky? Are you an 8-yr old girl? Excellent. Thank you.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@GlennGoryl I might have had one around a bit, could have picked up some parlance :)

[@johncarlo7395]

The title says "Why doesn't everyone teach it like this" thank God they don't, you'd be bored to death.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@johncarlo7395 thanks for giving the video a watch. I appreciate it!

[@davesims7917]

I’m still confused on what an interval means???

[@curiousguitarist]

@@davesims7917 interval describes the distance and difference in pitch between two notes

[@davesims7917]

@ OK thank you for that… So what does interval training exactly mean then?

[@curiousguitarist]

@ once you get familiar with these distances, and start to see them, you get much more control over what you can play and when/where you can play it. This becomes a conscious ability to see and leverage musical relationships directly on the fretboard in real time…not dots or diagrams, but actual musical connections

[@jasoncdebussy]

Broccoli is most definitely contraindicated. Intervals aren't!

[@t-rocket6381]

Great introduction, but it would have been nice to see an application/practical use at the end.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@t-rocket6381 watch my video on thirds, there’s some good application in there. Thirds and 6ths are arguably the most easily applied intervals for a guitarist who’s just getting them under their fingers. Great idea for the application demo!

[@jeremyespencer]

Ear training and ability to hear intervals. No more tab once you get good at it.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@jeremyespencer so true!

[@jopberlin]

Wow…..such a long video for so less information…s….this guys likes to hear his Voice

[@curiousguitarist]

@@jopberlin use the chapter function if you’d like the least amount of context.

[@embodiedconducting]

I understand what you're doing with your use of interval nomenclature, but I think you may be doing as much harm as good. A major 3rd is NOT a major 3rd becuase it is the 3rd degree of the major scale. You can find major 3rds in any minor scale or any mode. For exmaple C down to Ab is a major third.. Looking at C lydian, D up to F# is also a major 3rd. Looking at the A major scale, one finds major 3rds from A to C#, D to F# and E to G#. The same is true for the major 6tth, the minor 3rd, You mention the minor 2nd. Is it a minor 2nd becuase it's a part of the major scale?

[@grindcorepr92]

Not really. He gave a very simple introductory explanation of what intervals are. What you are doing is exploring all the nuances that come with learning theory which is valid. But he is talking about the bare bones.

[@curiousguitarist]

@@embodiedconducting great comment! My video dedicated to 3rds intervals coves this as well. However, this video is designed to be an introduction for folks. Once an initial context can be claimed, further context can be applied. There will always be questions, but not all answers are valuable at the start. At least that’s my take :). Thanks for the comment and great context!!

[@m.vonhollen6673]

1458,Perfect,2367,Major. Perf.>Aug./Perf.Aug./Maj.Maj./Min.

[@curiousguitarist]

That's very cool, only thing I would add is that the maj 3rd cannot be augmented, only suspended.

[@fahimmurshed]

Great lesson Chris! Thank you.