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  INTERVALS   Intervals are important in music and they are the basics for chord and scale construction. An interval is the difference in pitch between one note and another. Intervals can be either designated melodic or harmonic. A melodic interval is when notes are played in a melody (unsurprisingly lol), and harmonic intervals are notes that are played at the same time eg. a chord, double-stop, etc. Ok, so what harmonic and melodic Intervals do I need to know? Good question, thank you for that. I will endeavour to answer it, (mmm clears throat…) Wow, that looks confusing.. This may be easier Intervals are designated as either perfect (P), major (M) or minor (m). If you look at the fret diagram you can see that written above the sixth semitone is  Ƅ 5. Above that is the type of interval, in this particular case it is a A4/d5. This is an Augmented 4th or a Diminished 5th (sometimes called the Tri-Tone). All this means is the Perfect 4th note has been sharpen...

    how to Tune a guitar- 4 methods to tune a guitar oh my god - hand me the gun!! I asked a non-musical friend today how he thought someone could tune a guitar. He said that you get one of those units, turn it on and wait till the pointy thing is in the right place!!?? Guitar tuning is used to correct the pitch of the open strings of a guitar. In western music the tuning of the guitar strings are ordered from the thickest to the thinnest. Guitars are normally tuned (called Standard Tuning), with string pitches – E,A,D,G,B,E. One way to remember this is by using the mnemonic - E ddy A te D ynamite, G ood B ye E ddy So how do you tune your guitar There are several ways of tuning a guitar. here are a few of the common methods. You can use a tuner, a pitch pipe/tuning fork, another musician, or the 5th fret method. Tuner A tuner is a electronic device to help tune guitar strings to the correct pitch by using a display. The pitch detected and measured in Hertz. ...