Songs to help you learn note intervals
January 7, 2006 by Andy
Do you struggle to identify the interval between two notes?
A trick I use is to think of a melodies than contain the interval, and are easy to remember.
Below are a few suggestions for the main major, minor and perfect intervals:
Major 2nd
- Frere Jacques: First two notes or second two notes
- Happy Birthday: Second two notes
- EastEnders (UK Soap Opera): Any two consecutive notes from the first five
Minor 3rd
- Beverley Hills Cop: First two notes
- “A Time for Us” Romeo & Juliet (main theme): First two notes
Major 3rd
- While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (Carol): First two notes
- Kum Ba Ya (Chorus): First two notes
Perfect 4th
- Here Comes the Bride: First two notes
- Dallas: First two notes
- Auld Lang Syne: First two notes
- Amazing Grace: First two notes
Perfect 5th
- Star Wars: First two notes
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Second and third notes
- O Lord and Father of Mankind (Hymn): First two notes
Minor 6th
- Theme from ‘Love Story’: Third and fourth notes (first two notes are the same interval with high note first)
Major 6th
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean: First two notes
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol): First two notes
- Angels (Robbie Williams): First two notes of verse
Major 7th
- On the Street Where You Live: the notes for ‘Once’ and ‘Am’ in ‘All at once am I, several storeys high’
Octave
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: First two notes
Hat tips to this music theory site and to “Songwriting and the Creative Process” for additional song ideas.
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Great. Thanks!
Any more?
Hey, is there any thing for over the octave?
It gets harder to find first two notes with intervals over an octave. I’ll see if I can find any.
M6 going up is the first notes of the NBC theme song. M5 going up is the theme to ET. m6 going up is the opening interval to Across the Starts Star Wars EP II.
Hey do you know any tricks to figuring out intervals descending
if you google search for decending intervals there are a ton of them
For the minor sixth going up, use “Let My People Go” (“WHEN ISRAEL was in Egypt’s Land….”)
For the perfect 5th, “Top Gun” theme works the best for me
What is made from the second to the third notes of “Twinkle, Twinle, Little Star”?
What interval is heard on the forst two notes of “i’ve been working on the railroad”?
What interval occurs on the first two notes of the song “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean”?
What interval is made from the first two notes of “Oh, When the saints go marching in”?
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We have made a comprehensive chart of songs, organized by their starting interval. Each song includes a link to a YouTube video with the song. Check it out here:
http://www.earmaster.com/intervalsongs
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Hans Jakobsen
EarMaster
Fur Elise has an octave in it.