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Hi, how are you doing, Justin here!

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Here we are at Aural Training Stage 5,

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where we are now looking at

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all of the chromatic, ascending,
melodic intervals.

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Bit of a mouthful that one, aye?

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So basically, we are looking at

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all of the notes ascending,
like going up,

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within an octave.

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There's 3 intervals that
we haven't looked at yet,

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they are a minor 6, a minor 7,
(or a flat 6 and a flat 7)

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and also an augmented 4th.

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you can also call this a flat 5.

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I tend to think of it as a sharp 4.

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Doesn't really matter,
sharp 4, flat 5,

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augmented 4th, diminished 5th,
same thing, don't worry about it.

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So, we need to check out
these intervals.

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So, the first one
that we need to look at

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is the flat 6.

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♪

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Now, I always hear this...

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The one that I kind of grew up with
was a song called Black Orpheus.

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♪

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It's that.
It's a kind of a jazz standard.

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♪

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But there's also a lot cooler ones.

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So, you can either use Black Orpheus,
or you can use Without Me, the Eminem classic,

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the little riff that he get's going (♪)
That beginning of that.

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♪

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That's a flat 6 interval. Minor 6.

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♪

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Great song.

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♪

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Ok, so, that's your flat 6, or
Black Orpheus.

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♪

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Beautiful melody, again.
The other one that we're looking at

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is a flat 7, now, flat 7 sounds like this: ♪
Now, I always hear it as sounding bluesy.

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That's how I recognize that interval.
Apparently, the Star Trek theme tune starts like it,

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but I just wouldn't be able, for the life of me,
I can't figure out how it goes and I've already

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started the video, I'm not gonna go and
look it up on Youtube, figure it out,

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work out and play it. So, those of you,
that know Star Trek ♪

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I used to be a fan of Star Trek too, It's kinda...
I should remember how it goes,

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I just, it's not in my head now for some reason.
Anyway, that's the interval, it's a flat 7

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♪

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I just recognize it

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♪

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It's got two steps up to the octave (♪)

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Just sounds kind of bluesy.
Funk kind of sound in it (♪)

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So, I'm not so helpful with giving you
a song hint here on the flat 7 interval, but ♪

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If some of you guys, you know,
experienced aural trainers out there, ♪

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wanna tell me some songs other then
Star Trek, that start like that ♪

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I'll add them up to the website, but some
people find that interval difficult to pick.

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It's just really getting
the sound in your head ♪

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Singing it over and over again,
getting used to the sound ♪

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Probably the best singing exercise
you can do is: playing the root note,

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♪

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Try and sing that interval that you're
going for, ♪ and then play it!

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Make sure that you've got it right.

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♪

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Probably the best way of getting
that sound properly in your ear.

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That's flat 7

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The other interval that we have to
check out is the sharp 4, or flat 5.

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♪

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This is exactly halfway between
an octave, this one:

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♪

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Used to be called the devil's interval (♪)


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And if you were a composer, and you know,
medieval times and you wrote this interval

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in a song that'd burn you
at a stake for being a witch

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♪

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Lucky, that doesn't happen these days, right?
Or, I would be really screwed.

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♪

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There's a few tunes that...the most common
I guess, tune that most people use I guess is

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The Simpsons - ♪

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Just sounds like that; it's kinda obvious.
It's also from Ave Maria. ♪

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The song I...that kinda resonated with me when
I was a teenager and kinda learning this stuff

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there was a band I really liked called Primus
and they had a song called John the Fisherman

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which started-off with this augmented 4th

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♪

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so I always hear it as being the
John the Fisherman interval

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♪ - Primus

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But Simpsons is probably a more common

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♪

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It's not a difficult sound to get that one,
it's got a...all of these intervals they've

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kind of got their own personality.
And that's kind of what you're looking for

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you're looking for a song. A song's a really
good start. If you can find a song that fits

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with the inerval, a song that you know,
that's really, that's the best place to start.

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After you've played it a few times,
and you've got used to hearing it

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as a song, just see if you can find
the character of the interval.

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'Cause it's almost, they've got a personality,
they've got their own flavor, or character

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or color, whatever you wanna call it.
Some methods around refer to them as

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colors; the intervals as each one having
a different color. They've never really

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worked for me, I know it works for some
other people, it didn't work for me.

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I hear them as kind of characters.
They've got a personality.

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That's how I see it. Other people...you know;
it's got a flavor, whatever you wanna call it, right?

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But try and develop a little bit of that beyond
just thinking of it as a song. Try and find a colour,

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or a flavor, or a personality in the intervals,
and you'll start to hear them a lot clearer

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Especially as it gets more complicated
and you starting to...later on

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you'll looking at chords and you'll try to
find the intervals in that chord, if you can

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hear the personalities, or the colours, or
the flavors, it's easier than trying to hear

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all of those different songs all at the
same time. That's pretty complicated, right?

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So, I think we're ready now to have a
close-up look, I nearly forgot that.

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Ok, let's go to a close-up and check-out
how to play these 3 different intervals.

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Down 2 strings and back 2 frets. So, from
here, down 2 strings, back 2 frets.

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♪

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Just practice doing it,
practice the duu-daaa, then play it!

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♪

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Play the root note sing along with it then
Jump to the interval with your voice ♪

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It's minor 6, then we've
also got minor 7 ♪

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These are in the same fret, but with
one string in the middle

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So there, miss one, play the next one.


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♪

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Listen to it! Play it, listen to it!
Really try and get it in your ears.

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Do the little sing, check it!
Also works of course ♪

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So all of these different interval shapes work
with either a 6th string root, or a 5th string root.

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♪

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It's a flat 7. Now the other one we've
looked at was a augmented 4th.

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♪

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I always think of these as diagonals.

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♪

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Other one: beginning of Purple Haze it's
another song that uses augmented 4th

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There's quite a few - ♪

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The Simpsons - ♪

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Or, Ave Maria - ♪

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It's Primus; so it's just completely diagonal.
So, one string over, one string up.

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That's how you play the augmented 4th.


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It's time to do a test!

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So, the 1st one we're looking at is
gonna be test 5A, and we're going to

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be playing each of the intervals twice
and it is just going to be the flat 6, the flat 7,

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and the augmented 4th.
Now, just to pre-warn you a bit,

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some people get a bit confused between the
augmented 4th and the flat 7

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Really try and get used to it.
there is no other way, really other than

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practicing and singing it. But try and get
used to how far each one is from the root note.

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The augmented 4th (♪) seems closer to me
then (plays flat 7) it's like a bigger jump;

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it's further away, (♪) 
I think the confusing thing is

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that they're both referred to as dissonant.
They both got quite a lot of tension in those intervals.


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So, if they're personalities they're
kind of wound up a bit, right?

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So, because of that, there's sometimes it's
a little easy to confuse the two, but

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it, again, it's only practice.
Everything on the guitar, it's just down to practice.

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The right practice.
So, let's do a test!

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10 questions, let's go, here it is:

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Question 1: ♪

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And question 2: ♪

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And 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 you have any of it that you were struggling with

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practice them a few more times,
practice singing along,

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try and feel their vibration,
pick-up on their personality

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find their flavor, look at the color,
whatever it is that you're using,

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try and get with those particular
intervals that you struggle with.

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Remember that when you're practicing
this sort of stuff, you should be practicing

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the ones that you struggle with,
not all of them.

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If you're totally acing 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and 5ths,
when you're practicing, leave'em out!

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Untick those boxes, so you're not working
on those particular intervals.

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'Cause you know them already.
Work on the ones you can't do!

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Very good little practice tip to remember
is: always practice what you can't do,

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dont't practice what you can.
Lot's of people fall into that trap.

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playing the same stuff that they know
how to do over and over again;

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They don't work on the stuff they can't do
which is what would make them

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a better guitar player. Of course this whole
interval thing works not just for guitarists,

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for all instruments, but you know what
I'm saying. Okay, now we're at 5B.

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The final test of this little series. In which
we have all of the diatonic intervals.

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So, minor 2nd, 2nd, minor 3rd, 3rd, 4th,
augmented 4th, 5th, flat 6/minor 6, 6

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flat 7, 7, and octave. A whole lots of
juice from now. And this is kind of...

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This is a seriously good level of
aural training. If you can get this and

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you can get'em all right that's great.
So, see how you go, go to the website, there's

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plenty more tests on there, if you use the
interval--Justinguitar Ear Trainer thingy-

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or do it yourself, practice buddy, whatever
recording yourself. One of those methods.

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That's what you should be up to now.
So, here we go: this is test 5B

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Good luck!

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Question 1: ♪

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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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Ok, there we go, that's the end of
aural training stage 5, there's

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plenty more information on the website,
if you wanna continue your aural training

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and start looking at harmonic intervals,
and or descending intervals.

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So, hope that was lots of fun, you did
really good, practice hard, stay safe,

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take care, and I'll see you again
real soon. Bye-bye!