Guitar Theory

CHAPTER5

Sizing Up Intervals

In This Chapter

• Turning Major Scale notes into degrees
• Defining and naming intervals
• Finding intervals on your fretboard
• Adjusting for the B string
• Playing octaves on the guitar

Sing or hum or even whistle the first two notes of “Somewhere over the Rainbow.” Now try “My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean,” “O Canada,” or “A Hard Day’s Night”—again, just the first two notes. Can you hear the differences between the first and second note of each example? The first two might seem easier, or at least more distinct, than the second two.

What you’ve just done is demonstrated what a musical interval is. And you’re about to discover ...