Song beginnings to remember intervals

[leanne]

Any suggestions for common songs that demonstrate whatever interval at the beginning?

ie: some examples

minor 2nd : theme from Jaws
major 2nd : Happy Birthday
minor 3rd : Whole Lotta Love
perfect 4th : Auld Lang Syne
flat (diminished) 5th : Maria from west side story (start of chorus)
perfect 5th : Twinkle Twinkle...
major 6th : My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
octave: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

(I know there used to be a thread like this but I can't find it)

[JimK]

Another Major 6th-
"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear".

[mycranium]

Minor 7th - Star Trek theme (the original show)
p4th = Here Comes the Bride

1/6/4 - NBC chimes

[jgbass]

Another Minor 7th -

There's A Place For Us -- West Side Story Song

[leanne]

...still trying to come up with one that's a major 7th, ascending. That's what brought on this thread.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by mycranium

1/6/4 - NBC chimes

That was the General Electric Company's chime...they were a big NBC sponsor way back when.
So, it's-
G-E-C

[leanne]

Originally Posted by JimK

That was the General Electric Company's chime...they were a big NBC sponsor way back when.
So, it's-
G-E-C

No kidding! Heh, that's genius
I wonder who came up with it. And look how it stuck. That's so cool.

[leanne]

Originally Posted by leanne

...still trying to come up with one that's a major 7th, ascending.

I saw a post on another board that said the beginning of Take On Me is a major 7th. I don't have a recording of the tune handy, can anyone confirm this?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by leanne

...still trying to come up with one that's a major 7th, ascending. That's what brought on this thread.

This one may work (mp3 file).

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by leanne

minor 3rd : Whole Lotta Love

If you're talking about the Led Zeppelin tune, it starts with a perfect fourth. The riff is A-D-B-D-E... Not B-D-B-D-E.

For augmented fourth / diminished fifth, the intro to Rush's YYZ is a good example. Also the "Black Sabbath" riff (it starts with an octave, but the tritone is what gets stuck in your head). The theme from "The Simpsons" works, too.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

If you're talking about the Led Zeppelin tune, it starts with a perfect fourth. The riff is A-D-B-D-E... Not B-D-B-D-E.

I've just re-listened the song. Maybe the confusion is because John Paul Jones plays B-D-B-D-E when he enters (maybe for an implicit minor 7th chord?). Sometimes they play B, sometimes A, which I prefer (that's the very beginning of the song, anyway).

[bassjus]

perfect 5th - TOP GUN THEME!

how could anyone forget that!

[c-ba55]

Ceora is an ascending major seventh.

[Pacman]

Originally Posted by leanne

...still trying to come up with one that's a major 7th, ascending. That's what brought on this thread.

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the 1st and 3rd notes of the vocals in "The Imigrant Song", is what I always use...

[jgbass]

If you are trying to sing this you might sing the lower note, think up an octave and then sing the next possible lowest note. Works for me. Or sing the lower note and go into the Immigrant Song phrases a Major 7 above.

[kjones]

The intro to Rikki, Don't Lose that Number.

[driver800]

Originally Posted by kjones

The intro to Rikki, Don't Lose that Number.

and JPJ's first two notes in Ramble On.


Octave: Take Me Out To The Ball Park