"Music Intervals Are Your Key
To Musical Mastery!"

There's no doubt that understanding music intervals offers you a very powerful advantage when it comes to reading music and playing by ear.

How? Well firstly, let's answer the basic question: "What is a music interval anyway?"

In general terms, an interval is the distance between any two points. Well, in music, an interval is the distance between two notes - except, we don't measure this distance with a ruler...

So, when it comes to reading, what's the benefit? Well, you might equate it to reading words, phrases and sentences. As you read these words, notice how you don't have to concentrate on every letter of each word.

Why? Because the words you are reading consist of letter combinations that you have been familiar with for quite some time. Your eyes just see a word and, instantly, your brain experiences a recollection of what that group of letters represents.

Furthermore, this ability to identify doesn't stop with just words. Phrases and sentences can be also be read in a rather quick and smooth fashion, rather than your having to stare at each and every word for any length of time before reading the next.

Well, when you recognize note combinations, a similar process occurs - and with amazing benefit! You can quickly glance at an entire measure of music (often more) and your brain simply forms a picture of what you you will play. Sight reading ability is definitely enhanced when you can easily identify musical intervals at first glance.

Playing music by ear also involves the ability to recognize the various music intervals. This applies to hearing melodies, chords, and chord progressions.

One small example of this: if you can sing the first two notes of the song Over The Rainbow then you know what two notes an octave away from each other sound like. This means you'll be able to recognize this music interval in other tunes. In addition, you can easily duplicate that sound whenever you want to. That, after all, is what playing by ear is all about.

Let me put you at ease. The process of learning your music intervals need not be a tedious one - and it won't be here.

As with my approach with coaching you all the other musical aspects, intervals are presented as part of the overall experience. In other words, learning your musical intervals will be integrated with the learning of other fundamentals in a fun, easy, and gradual manner.

Even if the concept of music intervals seems new to you, I can prove to you right now that you already know more about them than you think you do...

You've heard plenty of music I'm sure. Well, your ears have been exposed to many, many intervals repeated over and over again. Even though you may not be able to place a label on what them yet, your "musical ears" are familiar with what they have heard.

I can prove this to you right now. Can you sing or hum a little of the song "Happy Birthday?" I thought you might be able to do that! Well, when you sing that, you know, without thinking about it, that you must raise your pitch higher or lower at different points.

You see, you at least have an awareness that your voice must "jump" musical distances if you want that song to sound anything like what you've been trained to hear when you blow out those candles once a year.

As we dive into this subject of music intervals, together we are going to have lots of fun with all of this and you will realize more and more of your musical potential, to the point where you will amaze yourself before very long!

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