Scott, a lot of the tips ours truly freely hands out have to do with my own experiences of what is commonly taught and what is not commonly taught, but perhaps should be.

Somewhere along the line, years and years ago, I stumbled upon the situation on my own and proceeded to spend a week or so just rote memorizing the number of half steps in all of the intervals.

You will be glad you did if you do so.

For one example, that simple mind exercise brought home clearly the reality of the Tritone for me.

Don't know why I never saw it before then, but the Tritone is 6 half steps.

That's exactly one half the octave.

Don't think I'm telling you that knowing the half steps should surplant knowing the interval names, Major 2nd, Major 3rd, minor 6th and all that, we must be absolutely familiar with those terminologies as well.

But also knowing the half steps involved that define each of those intervals can open up another way of thinking about their relationships.

Music is NOT the notes played. Not at all.

Music is actually the distances between those notes.


--Mac

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