I’ve got another great ear training exercise for you! This exercise will teach you to sing the intervals found in the major scale. A musical interval is the distance between two pitches. In this exercise, we jump from Do to each note of the major scale (Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do). This exercise will help to refine your ear and improve your sight reading skills.
Music Interval Training
More About Major And Perfect Intervals
All of the intervals in this music interval training exercise are major or perfect. What does this mean? Major intervals are larger than minor intervals. They are more consonant, or pleasing to the ear. This is why many people hear major intervals as sounding “happy” and minor intervals as sounding “sad”.
Let’s compare a major and minor 3rd, for example. A major 3rd qualifies as major because it is the larger of the two intervals: the major 3rd spans four half steps, the minor 3rd only three.
The perfect 5th and perfect 4th belong to the group of perfect intervals (including the unison and octave). They are called this because of their simple pitch relationships and their high degree of consonance and stability. Think of the perfect intervals as extra special major intervals.
Major & Perfect Intervals
How To Practice
Here are the exercises from this video tutorial written out in the key of C. If you are able, play these interval exercises for yourself on the piano as you sing. Then sing them a cappella and check the pitches on the piano from time to time to make sure that you are in tune. If you can’t play the piano, just follow along with the video tutorial. Try singing the exercise in all twelve keys.
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