Major Intervals

If you’ve read up to this point in this primer, you’ve read about the significance of INTERVALS (the space between the notes) in music.  In one octave of our 12-note musical alphabet, we have 12 intervals. 

Learning the intervals and the SOUND of each interval is the basis for Ear Training and the Number System.  Again, most people can’t recognize the sound of the notes C and G together, however they can recognize the sound of the interval between them.  

On the previous page, we learned that the Major Scale is the basis for all music theory, and the intervals contained within the major scale are the framework on which music theory is built.  As such, it’s the logical place to start.

Within our 7-note major scale, we have 7 basic intervals to begin with.  Each Interval is named for its relationship (or the distance) from note 1. 

These are all the intervals that build our Major scale, but what about the notes in between (the notes we’ve skipped over with our Whole Steps)?

On the next page we will discuss Minor Intervals.