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Intervals & How to Hear Them

An A3 wall chart of every interval within the octave, each with a familiar tune to fix its sound in the ear, plus panels on counting the number, naming the quality, and how inversion works.

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What's inside

  • Every interval within the octave built on C, from unison to octave, with its semitone count
  • A familiar tune for each interval, from a minor 2nd up to an octave, to fix its sound in the ear
  • How to count the number of an interval, and how to name its quality
  • How inversion works — the numbers sum to nine, major and minor swap, perfect stays perfect, and the tritone inverts to itself
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