Numbers as Intervals in Music

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Submitted by Walt on Tuesday, 25 August 20097 Comments

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A lot of times, when referring to an interval, people will refer to it as a Number instead of the actual note.

The example is that A B C# D E F# can be written as 1 2 3 4 5 6. This is effective because it easily allows you to change keys and transpose. 1 2 3 4 5 6 in the key of D would be D E F# G A B. SO I transcribe the notes and show you how its’ done with this post. Check it out!

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7 Comments »

lahhtoota said:

you doing grate..
it help me a lot..
0:11
e|———————————————————————|
B|———————————————————————|
G|——————-5–5–5–5–5——————–5–5–5–5–5—-|
D|—2–2–2–2–2—5–5–5–5–5—2–2–2–2–2—-5–5–5–5–5—-| Guitar 1
A|-72–2–2–2–2—3–3–3–3–3—2–2–2–2–2—-3–3–3–3–3—-|(intro slide only
E|-0–0–0–0–0——————-0–0–0–0–0———————| the first time)
| |
e|———————————————————————|
B|———————————————————————|
G|—-12–11-/-12-.–12–11-/-12-.–12–11-/-12-/-14–12–11–7–| Guitar 2
D|—————–.—————.———————————–|(dots mean rest)
A|—-10–9–/-10-.–10–9–/-10-.–10–9–/-10-/-12–10—9–5–|
E|———————————————————————|

can you explain how to play these tabs.. i confessing..
and another .. one

Pm…………………. what that mean..

- 20 November 2009 at 7:54 pm

Walt Ribeiro (author) said:

Can’t read the tab. Gotta link?

- 21 November 2009 at 8:28 am

terry bechard said:

hi my name is terry i am all new to playing a guitar i wanna learn to play it but i don’t know what chords are what on the guitar so can u please help me out with this man send me some info a pictures of u showing me what chords r what on the guitar thanxs

from terry bechard

- 1 December 2009 at 8:58 pm

Walt Ribeiro said:

Hi Terry!

As for the Chords this may help:

Weekly Music Lesson #2 Chords A D and E
http://waltribeiro.net/2008/10/02/revision3-beta-your-weekly-music-lesson-2-chords//

Weekly Music Lesson #7 Chords C F and G
http://waltribeiro.net/2008/11/11/weekly-revision-3-lesson-7-chords-c-f-and-g/

There’s my archive page at http://www.waltribeiro.net/archive

For pictures you can go here:
http://waltribeiro.net/archive/#pic

Hope that helps!

-Walt

- 2 December 2009 at 8:59 am

ces said:

hi there.. am trying to learn to play on piano a particular song (actually 2 songs). problem is i haven’t played any song (except twinkle little star, maybe) on piano. and am having a hard time following someone in youtube play the song.. can i ask a little favor. i just need to learn the chords of those songs. I learned how to read notes from your other videos. i just can’t find a complete chord for the song. here’s the link — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjolP7-XLE (entitled bastat kasama kita) and the other one is the song take me i’ll follow by bobby caldwell (which i might find in the internet).. thanks i hope you can help me with this.. thanx thanx

emaconcierva@gmail.com

- 16 February 2010 at 12:00 pm

Evan said:

I just found your website yesterday, and I have learned more in 2 hours than I have in 10 years. Your site and video tutorials are exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for everything and for things to come. My question is that I notice that some notes on a sheet of music are written lower than they are played. Example: The high E note (24th fret) pitch is higher than than the treble clef but it is written lower. Please explain. Would you also explain chords further? Example: Cadd9 (what is the “add9″ and how is it found?

- 18 February 2010 at 11:12 am

Walt (author) said:

@CES use your ears – learning how to personally transcribe music is the best tool you could learn and will make you a more independent musician – and that’s powerful. Give it a shot, rather than depending on someone like me. It’s what I do!

- 18 February 2010 at 11:44 am