I have played drums and guitar for 25 years and never “got into” music theory. I know what sounds good and play that but I never learned the names or theory behind it.
Why is a 5th not 5 notes apart? On a keyboard it’s any where from 4 white keysto 8 total keys? Why is there not uniformity or consistency?
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A great way to think of the association between the number used for an interval and the scale from which they come: an interval is named for a SPAN of notes, including the starting and ending point for the span. So C D E F G is a span of five scale tones, and therefore the number used to describe this distance from the first to the last note must be a 5.
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