Semitones and tones, or half steps and whole steps, are the building blocks of intervals. We use different combinations of them to make up all the different types of scales and … See more

Now that we know about the two smallest intervals — semitones and tones — we can start looking at some larger intervals and how we describe them. We describe intervals us… See more

Now we’re going to cover the interval quality. We don’t just refer to intervals with the number; we also refer to the type of interval, which is what we call interval quality. I’ll e… See more

To help make sense of all the intervals, here’s a chart with the number of semitones (half-steps), the name, the abbreviation, and an example of the notes of all the intervals.… See more