Interval Ear Training: Aural Training Stage 4 of 5 (Guitar Lesson AU-104) How to play

Justin's Completely Free, Aural Training Lesson AU-104. Lesson 4.

In this lesson we look at the intervals of a minor 2nd and a minor 3rd. And then a couple more tests!

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Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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Hey, how are you doing?

Justin here.

Welcome to aural training, stage 4.

In this lesson today
we're going to be checking out another two intervals.

This time it's going to be the minor 2nd
and the minor 3rd interval.

Both of these intervals are fairly easy to recognise,

because they're quite distinctive.

The minor 2nd interval is one fret,

moving up one fret.

Sounds like this:

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It's a bit like Jaws.

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Little plastic fish jumps out of water,
that kind of thing (plays).

That is a minor 2nd (plays).

Same as a semitone (plays).

Moving up one fret.

Very, very simple.

Minor second.

The other interval we're checking out is...

a minor third.

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Few ways of playing this one (plays).

There's a few songs that have the minor 3rd interval
at the start of the melody.

Probably the most commonly known one
is Greensleeves.

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That interval:

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OK, let's have a look at a close-up
of how to play these intervals.

OK, start off with the minor 2nd.

This is a really difficult one (plays).

There's your root note (plays).

That's it.
It's up one fret.

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It's really hard one,
to spot that one.

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OK, that's a minor second.

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That's the name of the interval.

One semitone.

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Very simple.

Other one is a minor third.

There's two common ways of playing this.

First of all (plays),

is to use (plays) one to fourth finger.

Of course you're going to go:

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So there's a two-fret gap there
with the other two fingers you've got (plays).

Like the beginning of the minor pentatonic scale too.

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That's a minor 3rd interval: (plays).

You can also play it like this:

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If you want, you can move to the next string,
back two frets.

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Up to you which way you want to play.

Same thing.

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OK, as I mentioned before,

I think both of these intervals
have kind of got quite a distinct personality

and are fairly easy to spot.

So, we're going to start off with test Four A.

It's just going to be minor 2nd and minor 3rd.

Just to get your ear tuned in to those different intervals.

Shouldn't be too difficult this one.

And then in the next test, the Four B,

we're going to include
all of the intervals that we've done previous,

so that one's going to be
a little bit more challenging.

Let's talk about that in a sec.

Let's go for Four A, here we go.

Question 1:

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Question 2:

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Here is question 3:

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Question 4:

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Question 5:

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Question 6:

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Question 7:

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Question 8:

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Question 9:

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And question 10:

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Ok, off to the website,
check your answers.

If there are any that you got wrong,
go and focus on those,

play them through a few more times,

try singing along if you can.

Remember too that closing your eyes is really helpful,

that it turns your ears on a little bit more.

All that extra brain power that was going onto your eyes
is now going into your ears.

So a lot of times you see people playing guitar

and not looking,
with their eyes closed.

It's because you can kind of...

you can absorb more through your ears
with your eyes closed, so...

And plus I feel a little bit stupid here
with you looking at me doing this stuff

while I'm sitting and kind of playing
and looking around the room.

So, it's probably better
if you're not looking at me too, you know.

You should be concentrating on the interval stuff.

Ok, here we go, Four B.

We're now looking at,
we've got choices between:

minor 2nd which was Jaws,

major 2nd which was 'Happy Birthday,'

minor 3rd which is 'Greensleeves' or whatever,

major 3rd which was...

'Oh When The Saints Go Marching In,'

perfect 4th which was The Wedding Song
or 'Auld Lang Syne,'

a 5th which was, now I'm struggling,
Superman *[should be Star Wars]*,

a major 6th which was 'My Way'

and a major 7th.

So you've got...

there's a whole lot of different intervals now
that you got to choose from.

This is kind of hard work, guys.

So, you know... good luck!

Here we go, question 1 of Four B:

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Question 2:

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Question 3:

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Question 4:

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Question 5:

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Question 6:

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Question 7:

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Question 8:

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Question 9:

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And question 10:

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Hope that went OK for you,
go and check your answers.

Remember to practice the ones
that you're struggling with.

Remember that you can also set
on the Justinguitar Ear Trainer on the website,

you can select certain intervals.

If you really need to drill just a few
that you're getting wrong all the time,

you can go to the custom option
where you can, you know,

you just tick off the intervals
that you're struggling with

and it will just test you
on those over and over again,

that's called Training Mode.

And that's something really useful for you,
to use the Justinguitar Ear Trainer.

You know, lots of practice!
This is only a practice thing.

The more that you do it,
the better you'll get at it.

The things that help are the singing along with it,

really listening to it and doing it.

Either doing the Justinguitar Ear Trainer,

doing with me like this,

recording yourself playing different intervals

and, you know, testing yourself

and/or getting your jam buddy to test you.

They are the ways that will sort out your ear.

I'm sure that you'll find,
by time you get to this,

and you've done the end of this little series

and you've got your ear trained up a bit,

you're going to find transcribing a whole lot easier,

you'll start to listen.

I might even be so bold as to say that
you might start listening to music in a different way.

You'll start to hear
different levels within a music, you know.

Start listening to, you know,
every time you listen to music now

see if you can listen what the base player's doing

and see if you can hear,
is he playing a 4th or 5th of the root note.

Or, you know, when there's a lead guitar solo
if he plays a couple of notes,

can you kind of figure out
what he's doing there?

You know, it's a good...

really, really good skill this one.

So... have fun with that
and I'll see you for stage 5 real soon.

Bye bye!