Day 3 - Patterns Found in All Music
Now that you've had a general look at the motion of music, it's time to dive a bit deeper.
Music is made up of intervals, which is the distance from one note to another.
Becoming fluent with intervals will help develop your reading, but even more it will give you a deeper understanding of the relationship between notes.
Eventually, you can reach a point where you can predict specifically what note is likely to come next and why.
For today, spend 15 minutes counting the intervals in the music you're reading.
An interval is the distance or space between one note to another.
It's comprised of two components:
1) A number (2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) that's found by counting the notes.
2) A quality (major, minor, etc.) that's determined by the type of distance used.
For simplicity's sake, you'll only look at the interval's number - don't worry about its quality (major, minor, etc.).
By seeing intervals, you start to understand a much deeper relationship between notes.
Task:
15 minutes: Study the vertical and horizontal intervals and label them into the score with numbers.
You can also practice identifying intervals using Teoria:
Go to Intervals - Identification
https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/