CHAPTER2

Intervals

In This Chapter

  • Changing pitches with sharps and flats
  • Understanding half steps and whole steps
  • Counting the intervals between notes
  • Using major, minor, perfect, diminished, and augmented intervals

Lesson 2, Track 11

In the previous chapter you learned all about musical pitches: how they’re named and how they’re presented on a staff. In this chapter we’ll go beyond that by looking at how pitches can be raised and lowered, and how you can describe the differences between pitches in terms of intervals.

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