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Create Your Own Interval Examples Chart

Introduction
We have made this page to help you find songs that you can use to identify intervals.
A common way to recognize intervals is to associate it with reference songs that you know well. For example, the song Amazing grace begins with a perfect fourth. So when you hear an interval that sounds like the beginning of Amazing grace, you can easily identify it as a perfect fourth.
Read more about Interval Music Theory here.

How to use the EarMaster Interval Song Examples Chart
Select one song for each interval, and press the "Create interval examples chart" button at the bottom of the page to generate a printer-friendly page with your own interval song reference chart.
Each song includes a link to a video example hosted on YouTube, with the sole purpose of providing a musical exerpt to illustrate each interval.

Today's challenge

What interval does this melody begin with?

Play challenge!

See the answer at the bottom of the page.

Interval

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Descending

Minor 2^nd

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A Hard Days Night (Beatles) - youtube

Jaws - youtube

Pink Panther theme - youtube

White Christmas (Irving Berlin) - youtube

Isn't she lovely (Stevie Wonder) - youtube

Chromatic scale - youtube

I Left My Heart In San Fransisco - youtube

New World Symphony 4th movement (Dvorak) - youtube

Stormy Weather (Arlen/Koehler) - youtube

How Insensitive (Jobim) - youtube

I'm Getting Sentimental over You - youtube

I Remember You (Schertzinger/Mercer) - youtube

Nice work if you can get it (Gershwin) - youtube

What’s new (Haggart/Burke) - youtube

Für Elise (Beethoven) - youtube

Joy to the World (Christmas) - youtube

Jurassic Park theme - youtube

Stella By Starlight (Jazz Standard) - youtube

Ravel's Bolero - youtube

Oh Little Town of Betlehem (Christmas) - youtube

Shall We Dance (The King and I) - youtube

Solar (Miles Davis) - youtube

Major scale (descending) - youtube

Sophisticated lady (Duke Ellington) - youtube

She Gets Too Hungry (Rodgers/Hart) - youtube

Major 2^nd

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Happy Birthday to You - youtube

Silent Night (Christmas) - youtube

Do-Re-Mi/Do, a deer (Sound of Music) - youtube

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Christmas) - youtube

Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra) - youtube

Major scale (ascending) - youtube

My Funny Valentine (Jazz standard) - youtube

Are you Sleeping - youtube

Rock with you (Michael Jackson) - youtube

EastEnders (BBC) - youtube

Nobuo Uematsu (FF7) - youtube

The Tennessee Waltz - youtube

Body and Soul (Jazz Standard) - youtube

There Will Never Be Another You (Nat King Cole) - youtube

Sleeping Sun (Nightwish) - youtube

Grace (Gordian Knot) - youtube

Yesterday (Beatles) - youtube

Mary had a little lamb - youtube

Three Blind Mice - youtube

The First Noel (Christmas) - youtube

M.A.S.H. theme - youtube

Freddie Freeloader (Miles Davis) - youtube

Satin doll (Ellington/Strayhorn) - youtube

Away In a Manger (Christmas) - youtube

Eight Days a Week (Beatles) - youtube

Whistle While You Work (Disney/Snow White) - youtube

NBC news theme - youtube

On the Sunny Side of the Street - youtube

Minor 3^rd

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Greensleeves - youtube

Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple) - youtube

O Canada (national song) - youtube

Lullaby (Brahms) - youtube

Georgia on my mind - youtube

So Long, Farewell (Sound of Music) - youtube

Bad (Michael Jackson) - youtube

Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop) - youtube

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone - youtube

The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha) - youtube

Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Beatles) - youtube

Somewhere My Love (Dr. Zhivago) - youtube

A Foggy Day (Gershwin) - youtube

A Time For Us (Romeo&Juliet) - youtube

Minor Swing (Django Reinhardt) - youtube

Windmill Hut (Zelda: Ocarina of Time) - youtube

Hey Jude (Beatles) - youtube

Frosty the snowman (Christmas) - youtube

Star Spangled Banner (US national song) - youtube

Jesus Loves Me - youtube

This Old Man - youtube

Misty (Erroll Garner) - youtube

They don’t care about us (Michael Jackson) - youtube

What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter) - youtube

Hook theme - youtube

You're A Grand Old Flag - youtube

Trois Jeunes Tambours - youtube

500 Miles High (Chick Corea) - youtube

Major 3^rd

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Oh, when the Saints - youtube

Kumbaya - youtube

Morning has Broken - youtube

Four Seasons: Spring (Vivaldi) - youtube

Michael Row the Boat Ashore - youtube

Sweet Hour Of Prayer - youtube

From the Halls of Montezuma (Marines’ Hymn) - youtube

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - youtube

I Can’t Get Started (Duke/Gershwin) - youtube

Dallas theme (French version) - youtube

Nous n'irons plus au bois - youtube

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - youtube

Summertime (Gershwin) - youtube

Fate - Symphoni No.5 (Beethoven) - youtube

Man in the Mirror; verse (Michael Jackson) - youtube

Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me - youtube

Good Night Ladies (Traditional) - youtube

Giant steps (John Coltrane) - youtube

Come rain or come shine - youtube

L’Eau vive (Guy Beart) - youtube

Bessies Blues (John Coltrane) - youtube

Perfect 4^th

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Amazing Grace - youtube

Here comes the Bride/Wedding March (Wagner) - youtube

Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley) - youtube

We Wish You a Merry Christmas - youtube

Harry Potter theme - youtube

Super Mario - youtube

Auld Lang Syne - youtube

Oh Christmas Tree/Oh Tannenbaum - youtube

All the Things You Are - youtube

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (Christmas) - youtube

Star Trek Theme (Next Generation) - youtube

La Marseillaise (French National Song) - youtube

Black or White (Michael Jackson) - youtube

Someday My Prince Will Come (Disney/Snow White) - youtube

El Condor Pasa - youtube

Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) - youtube

Doxy (Sonny Rollins) - youtube

Simple Gifts (Shaker song) - youtube

Dallas theme - youtube

The British Grenadiers - youtube

Meunier tu dors - youtube

Oh, come all ye faithful - youtube

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) - youtube

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad - youtube

Born Free (Movie theme by John Barry) - youtube

George of the Jungle theme - youtube

Adeste Fideles - youtube

Shave and a Haircut - youtube

Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein) - youtube

Yardbird suite (Charlie Parker) - youtube

Lawrence of Arabia theme - youtube

Dynasty theme - youtube

Your woman (White town) - youtube

L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole (Bizet) - youtube

A Mighty Fortress is Our God - youtube

I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Rodgers) - youtube

Tritone

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Simpsons - youtube

Maria (West side story) - youtube

Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) - youtube

Blue Seven (Sonny Rollins) - youtube

YYZ (Rush) - youtube

Perfect 5^th

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - youtube

Star Wars - youtube

Scarborough Fair - youtube

One (Metallica) - youtube

Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley) - youtube

My Favourite Things (Sound of Music) - youtube

Blackbird (Beatles) - youtube

The ABC Song - youtube

Baa Baa Black Sheep - youtube

X-Files theme - youtube

Also Sprach Zarathustra/2001 movie theme (Strauss) - youtube

Superman - youtube

Bags Groove (Milt Jackson) - youtube

Whisper not (Golson) - youtube

BWV 1007 (J. S. Bach ) - youtube

Lavenders Blue - youtube

Flintstones theme - youtube

It Don’t Mean a Thing (Duke Ellington) - youtube

Feelings (Richard Clayderman) - youtube

What do you do with a Drunken Sailor - youtube

The Way You Look Tonight - youtube

Carmen (Bizet) - youtube

Down by the riverside, “lay” to “down” - youtube

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella/ Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle - youtube

Have You Met Miss Jones (Rodgers) - youtube

Donna, Donna - youtube

Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis) - youtube

Minor 6^th

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In My Life (Beatles) - youtube

When Israel Was In Egypt’s Land - youtube

She’s a Woman (Beatles) - youtube

1492 (Vangelis) - youtube

Morning of the carnival (Black Orfeus) - youtube

Valse Op.64 #2 (Chopin) - youtube

Love story theme - youtube

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - youtube

You're Everything (Chick Corea) - youtube

Major 6^th

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My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean - youtube

My way (Frank Sinatra) - youtube

Hush little baby (Lullaby) - youtube

It came upon a midnight clear (Christmas) - youtube

Take the A-Train - youtube

Nocturne (Chopin Op. 9#2) - youtube

For he's a jolly good fellow/Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre - youtube

Angels (Robbie Williams) - youtube

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen - youtube

Man In the Mirror; chorus (Michael Jackson) - youtube

The Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera) - youtube

Over There (George Cohan) - youtube

Il Etait un Petit Navire - youtube

Weaver of dreams - youtube

Minor 7^th

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Somewhere (West side story) - youtube

Star Trek theme (Original) - youtube

Maman les Petits Bateaux - youtube

Watermelon man - youtube

An American in Paris (Gershwin) - youtube

Lady Jane; Chorus (Rolling Stones) - youtube

Major 7^th

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Take on Me (A-Ha) - youtube

Somewhere over the Rainbow: 1st-3rd pitch (Wizard of Oz) - youtube

Don't Know Why (Nora Jones) - youtube

Bali Ha’I: 1st-3rd pitch (South Pacific) - youtube

Theme from Fantasy Island - youtube

Popular (Nada Surf) - youtube

I Love You (Cole Porter) - youtube

Octave

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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz) - youtube

I’m Singing in the Rain - youtube

Let it snow (Christmas) - youtube

Blue bossa - youtube

The Christmas Song - youtube

Bali Ha’I (South Pacific) - youtube

Willow Weep for Me - youtube

Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast (2.-3.tone) - youtube

Suggestions and feedback
If you find broken links, removed videos or have suggestions for new songs to include, please go to the Interval Song Examples forum and post a comment. Notice: please only suggest songs known by a larger audience. There are about 1 billion songs in this world and we cannot list all of them here.

If you feel that your copyright has been infringed by one of the video examples, please contact YouTube to have it removed from their website, and send us a notice so that we can delete the infringing material from the list.

Do you need more?
To train interval recognition and learn more music theory, you can use the "Interval Identification" exercise of our ear training program EarMaster.
When you reach a more advanced level of ear training, you might find it confusing to involve a different song in the music you work with. Then you should begin to associate the interval directly with its sound, without using a template song.

Interval music theory

What is ear training?

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Today's challenge

The answer is:

Perfect 5^th descending