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Okay Here's question the interval shone above is what And

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here the potential answers tri tone of perfect diminished Okay

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well the cool thing here is that we don't need

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to worry about any key signatures were just looking at

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these two notes in relation to each other Oh how

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sweet But before we can start meddling in their relationship

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we need to get to know him So let's identify

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the notes in question We know we're in bass clef

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and if we have any trouble identifying staff know it's

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well there are plenty of pneumonic tricks that we can

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use We're sure you've all been taught good boys do

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find always when learning the line notes of the bass

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clef that's g b d f a but we like

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making up our own demonic devices around here like a

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good bananas don't frolic away for grandma be interest doubts

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freud's argument and in addition to our no monix we

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have the bass clef itself pitching in to help us

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those two dots in the cleft well they straddle the

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line on the staff that marks the note and when

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you look at that one of the notes and the

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problem just happens to be sitting on that line with

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the help of grandma beatrice or frolicking bananas we can

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identify the other note as b flat with the two

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notes identified we can probably find the answer but there's

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one more easy tests that can be done to eliminate

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some of the wrong options And since we're feeling particularly

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generous today we'll let you in on it by simply

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counting the lines and spaces that it takes to get

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from b flat toe f one two three four and

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five we can figure out that the interval is a

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fifth of some kind This means we can get rid

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of d it's definitely not a fourth we're looking for

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and for this to be a diminished fifth e f

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natural would need to be an f flat Well maybe

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it's born with it but well maybe it's maybelline but

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it's looking pretty natural to us and a tri tone

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is comprised of either a diminished fifth or augmented fourth

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and as we've already ruled those two options out We

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can get rid of answer a as well are correct

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answer Is b a perfect fifth Not that there's Anything

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wrong with those other intervals No they're all perfect in 00:02:11.805 --> [endTime] their own ways

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