Interval Song - Django Bates

Every interval in the chromatic scale, set against a latin jazz backdrop. What more could you want?

Music theory made fun.

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• interval
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• django
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• theory
• latin
• jazz
• zappa

[Bluekid239]

Where can I find this song without the jazzy background? It's distracting and annoying. >< The accapella version, on the other hand, was really fun to listen to when my friends sang it yesterday.  This could really help me improve my sightreading skills.

[drongovids]

@Bluekid239 this is the only version as far as i know. it's the version off the album anyway. where did you hear an acapella version?

[Bluekid239]

@drongovids I heard my friends sing it acapella. They told me to look it up on youtube, so i did and I can't find any other video except this one. As far as i know this may be the only version, too, but I'm sure that someone, somewhere has recorded themselves singing it by themselves. I just can't sift through thousands upon thousands of google search results to find another recording. Oh, and this song isn't even on iTunes. =(

[drongovids]

@Bluekid239 Yep, I doubt there's an acapella version. Make one!

As for the song being on iTunes, I heard through a friend that Django Bates is aware of this video and said that the amount of hits it has got managed to convince his record label to release the song for download (8 years after the album came out!), so it's probably going to be on iTunes later this year.

[slayar764]

Are the intervals played at the same time?

[drongovids]

@slayar764 nope, it's the intervals between the notes in the melodies sang in each phrase. for instance, "this IS a MI-nor SE-cond", the interval between the capitalised syllables and the lowercase syllables is the interval described in the lyric. so the interval between "se-" and "-cond" is a minor second. se-cond, se-cond, se-cond... that's a minor second.

[muserock05]

this song has the potential to drive someone insane. xD

[melcano1]

This could potentially become the rick roll for musicians...

[GarlandDrest]

In theory this tune could be used to memorise the intervals by itself:

Learn song a capella

Learn to sing the tune from any starting point

Transpose the intervals so you can sing "this is a ...." from any note

When you can do all three steps fluently you'll have nailed intervals - though you'll probably be insane

[hibbityboo]

@mememe12395 That's an instrument called a cuica. And it's not any fun without the samba background.

[Fremglerk]

@Bluekid239 Django Bates wrote the song and this is his version. If you don't like the accompaniment, either transcribe the vocal part yourself (good exercise) or just record your friends.  And don't disrespect Django Bates until you know as much about composing and arranging as he does.

[mememe12395]

Sounds like something you'd expect to hear in the Sound Of Music or something haha

[SecretAgentCalico]

I love this, but the crazy screeching monkeys/ honking dogs are really quite distracting.... I need an a Capella version!

[LiamSwan2011]

the background sounds like a mario game

[asliuf]

love this song. catchy as hell

[Chrom1um]

oh god this song

[R1pTheJacka]

this is amazing, never thought something like this would be on my iPod..