Aural Training
When you take exams on guitar with any of the exam boards you will need to learn how to identify relationships between pitches.
Here is a table of different intervals between notes and how to identify them.
You can click on song names in red to be taken to a YouTube video of the relevant tune. You should arrive at just a tadge before the actual interval.
| Interval | Ascending | Descending |
| Unison | The One Note Samba | The One Note Samba |
| Minor 2nd | Jaws theme tune | Fur Elise (Beethoven) |
| Major 2nd | Happy Birthday Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Strangers in the Night | Mary had a little lamb Three blind mice Eight days a week (Beatles) |
| Minor 3rd | Greensleeves 7 nation army (White Stripes) Smoke on the water | Hey Jude (Beatles) Star spangled banner Misty |
| Major 3rd | Oh When The Saints Kumbaya Morning has broken | Summertime Swing low sweet chariot |
| Perfect 4th | Star Trek Theme If you’re happy and you know it Amazing Grace Here comes the bride Auld Lang Syne | Oh, come all ye faithful |
| Tritone (#4 or b5) | Simpsons theme tune Maria (West Side Story) | Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) Enter Sandman |
| Perfect 5th | Twinkle Twinkle Theme from A Space Odyssey Blackbird (Beatles) | Flintstones theme What do you do with a drunken sailor |
| Minor 6th | Close Every Door (Joseph) | Love story theme |
| Major 6th | For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Dashing through the snow | Down By the Riverside – between “lay” and “down” |
| Minor 7th | Star trek theme | Watermelon Man |
| Major 7th | Superman theme, Take On Me (Aha) | |
| Octave | Somewhere over the rainbow | Willow weep for me |