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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[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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[melcano1]

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

[norskblonde88]

oh god! I'm gonna have this song stuck in my head!

[TazerV]

syllabic declamation is cool, I <3 Fauxbourdons

[grt002]

this is honestly really excellent. Thanks for posting. I'm going to use this for theory and tuning dang timpani!!!

[Kyle Jeffrey]

Made a boring music class interesting, thanks for the unusual change

[Fiona-Jane Weston]

This explanation is really helpful, thank you.

[nalumatha]

<3



[Gina Kellie]

This is amazing my sister is doing GCSE music and she showed it to me-now we r always singing it!!

[joelisonkeys]

Wow, the ending is fantastic! I don't remember ever getting to hear that when I first heard this... I probably wasn't ready

[TheLavenderLynx]

It helps for Music Theory I. I'm using it right now to study for a test that may or may not be significantly aural :D