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I'm putting together a little chart of tunes to remember certain intervals. I've found these types of charts with Jazz standards I don't know, so I thought posting here might get me some better examples. Add anything, no matter how obscure. it may be useful!

I'd like to fill it with actual songs rather than putting "first two notes of minor scale" for instance

(A = ascending, D = descending)

minor second:
A: ?
D: 1st two notes of "la boheme" (charles aznavour)

major second:
A: Happy Birthday
D: Yesterday, That's Amore

Minor third:
A: O Canada
D: Star Spangled Banner, Hey Jude

Perfect 4th:
A: "Here comes the bride"
D: ??

Tritone:
A: ??
D: ??

Perfect Fifth:
A: Twinkle Twinkle, Zarathustra (2001)
D:

Minor Sixth
A: ??
D: Love Story

Major Sixth:
A: My Bonnie Lies over the ocean, NBC chimes
D: Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Minor Seventh:
A: sometimes I hum the second part of the bassline in Daft Punk's "Around the world", I need something better!
D:

Major Seventh:
A: "Some-where O-ver the rainbow..."
D:

Octave
A: "Some-where over the rainbow..."
D:

― Elliot (Elliot), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

new answers

― Elliot (Elliot), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot this:

min7. A: first two notes of old "Star Trek" theme

― Elliot (Elliot), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Minor Second (ascending): Shark motif from Jaws
Minor Sixth (ascending): Manhã de Carnaval from Black Orpheus

Perfect Fourth (descending): Every country music bassline ever

I'll let jaymc handle the tritone

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect fifth: (A) Star Wars

Minor third: (A) John Coltrane's "Equinox"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen anything like this before -- kind of terrific. The only thing bothering me is that I evidently have enough of a sense of relative pitch that I can't imagine all of these things in the same key. But that's more than made up for by the fact that I'm going to ride the train home tonight singing "Hey Jude can you see by the dawn's early light" etc.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

There's something a bit different, though, between mentally hearing the interval itself (sequentially) and hearing the actual "color" of the two notes played together (which is the part I'm trying to get better at).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect Fourth (D): Theme from Born Free (or from Lawrence of Arabia?)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Tritone:
A: Maria, from West Side Story, the first two notes, Ma-ri

― Pablo (Pablo A), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's the one I was leaving for Jaymc. Actually I like

Tritone: the theme from Dragnet

Dum-dah-dum-dum
Dum-dah-dum-dum-TRITONE!

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Some more:
Minor Third (A&D): Spoonful, opening notes(not vocal) of Fever
Perfect Fifth (D): Opening (not vocal) of My Girl

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Minor third:
D: YMCA - 1st "Young Man"

Perfect 4th:
D: YMCA - 2nd "Young Man"

Major third:
D: YMCA - 3rd "Young Man"

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 9 December 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tritone: bass in the opening of "Purple Haze"?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Minor sixth ascending: The first part of the chorus of Depeche Mode's "Shake the Disease": "here is a"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Tritone: bass in the opening of "Purple Haze"?

-- JAM UR HYPES (curtis.stephen...), December 9th, 2005.

Actually, I think the bass is playing octaves and the guitar is playing octaves that are a tritone away from the bass.

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

just realized:

Minor Sixth (A) first two notes of beatles "in my life"

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

dumb question : what's a tritone?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 10 December 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

tritone = flat fifth

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 December 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect Fifth (A): the song sung by the Palace Guard of the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard Of Oz

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 10 December 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Although maybe it's more of a chant than a song.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also, as I recall, the NYC subway door closing chimes are a descending minor third. But usually, when people ask (and they do), I give them "Hey Jude".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 10 December 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

minor second (A): "Every breath you take"

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 10 December 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

hey I forgot to put Major Third up there. (A) "Oh when the saints come marching in"

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 10 December 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Minor sixth: First couple notes in the theme from Love Story

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Alternate for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for both octave and major seventh (i.e., the first three notes are the same): "Bali Hai"

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Tritone: "The Simpsons" theme

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Major Third (up and down) : First three notes of "Goldfinger" (not the vocal)

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tritone: "The Simpsons" theme

nice! it's the least familiar one for me, but that makes it easy.

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 11 December 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't "Love and Marriage" have a flat fifth in it also? (I think it goes (1-5-flat 5- 5, but I can't remember) Something about those Fox dysfunctional family themes.

Bali Hai
Ha, jaymc, I was just reminded today that The Immigrant Song begins pretty similarly.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 11 December 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

There are websites that do this already, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

That last one helpfullly points out:

Ascending m2: "aiee-aiee-aiee-aieeaiee-aiee-aiee-aiee where do we go now" in GnR Sweet Child of Mine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not clicking on those websites just yet. I want to see what the good people of Formerly Known As I Love Guitar have to say first.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, they've already come up with almost everything on those websites. Except the last one, which tries to put G'n'R type songs in the mix.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 December 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Octave (A): Sweet Child O Mine

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

Perfect Fifth (A): the song sung by the Palace Guard of the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard Of Oz

Been arguing with someone about this who thinks it is a tritone, but hasn't actually listened to it in twenty some odd years. Apparently this is a common misconception and there is even a Metallica song where they play this as a tritone.

― The Narcissism of POLL Differences (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2d4zS56cY

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 31 July 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.karajan-eartrainer.com/en/

is brilliant

― Crackle Box, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

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