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For more information, please see full course syllabus of Music Theory
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Music Theory Major, Minor, Perfect & Numbered Intervals
Lecture Description
In this lesson, our instructor Laura Ryan goes through an introduction of major, minor, perfect, and numbered intervals. Laura begins the lesson with the major and minor intervals of the C Major Scale, including the major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th, and perfect octave. She adds that each interval has a set amount of half steps, and this fact can help students write and identify these intervals on the staff and the keyboard.
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Post by Li Zeng on June 9, 2019
Isn't it 4 half steps to a major third? I don't count the first note as a half step. there are only 4 steps in between the 5 notes.
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Post by Meysam Pirbaglou on December 20, 2013
Hi - What does diatonic mean in the context of scales or as in diatonic half step vs chromatic half step? Thank you
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Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:12 PM
Post by Linh La on August 4, 2012
When you count half steps, do you include the first note too? In example 6, when you counted the half steps of M3 you didn't count the first note but with all the others, you did count the first note. I've also learned in other classes that you don't include the first note because you count the steps rather than the note itself.