How to Play Intervals on Tuba

Video Transcript

"Hi Kevin Smith here again, TubaLove, and I'm talking to you about intervals. Now when I just did the slurring exercises, that incorporated the intervals. But I wanted, I want to discuss this a little more because it's kind of combination good way to warm up and also a good way to hearing the distance between notes. And that's basically what an interval is, distance between a note. They have half steps, whole steps, minor thirds, major thirds, perfect fourths, etc, etc. So if you're doing these kind of exercises, you hear this. That's what's called a half step. Ok, if you do this that is a whole step. And each of these, the half step, they call each of these a semi-tone. A whole step is made up of two semi-tones. And as they go for each of the intervals that I'm going to play in succession. I'm just adding one semi-tone, ok. So I've just play the whole step. Now I'm going to do a minor third. I'm adding a half step. And then a major third. Perfect fourth. Augmented fourth which can also be called a diminished fifth. Excuse me. And then a perfect fifth. Minor sixth. Major sixth. Minor seventh. Major seventh. And then an octave. What this does as well as continues to work on your mouth early in the morning. Get the lips going. Get the embouchure strengthened. It gives you the opportunity at the same time to just hear these intervals and start incorporating them as part of your entire musical experience."