1.Minor third from c = Eb ( e flat ) = 3 semitones above Cmediumaevum wrote:I'm trying to count to a third (tertian, Latin, Terts, Danish, Third Interval).Delta Sign wrote:The color of the keys doesn't matter. It's always one semitone from one key to the next.
It should be a simple task, but I guess not...
1. I have a C. Now, where's the third? According to music theory lessons I've taken and wikipedia and WHAT NOT! - a "Third" is composed of THREE SEMITONES (halfnotes).
2. Question: Do I count C too when counting to a third? Or do I count C#, D, D# (or Eb) - three semitones?
No
3. Question: Which direction? If I have a C, and I go DOWN, my "third" is not a D# (or Eb) - it's instead A.
Summed up my simple questions I have yet to have answered are:
Do you count the root tone (don't know the proper name, I begin with C, so let's call C root tone) when counting to a Third Interval?
Do you go up or down/right or left on the keyboard when counting an interval?
Mayor third from c = e = 4 semitones from c
2.Both ways
3. C= root ...counting 7 semitones up ( not starting on c ) gives us G = which is the FIFTH , C-->perfect 5th G
Counting 5 semitones down from c , gives us also a G ---->perfect fourth -->C
Reason why the counting is not intuitive is because you have two half steps in scale , yet we count the scale degrees in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,