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Intervals Overview
Ben explains that intervals are the key to understanding and unlocking music, letting you move ideas anywhere on the fretboard instead of getting stuck in shapes. By learning the distance between notes, everything else clicks naturally, from scales and chords to writing more emotional, musical solos without overthinking theory.
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2. What Are Intervals?
Ben’s saying: don’t drown in the science, keep playing, and add theory in tiny bites. Intervals are just the distance between two notes, and once you can hear and feel those distances on the guitar, everything clicks: chords, scales, arpeggios, and why things sound happy or sad. The major scale becomes the main reference map, and Ben understands other sounds by comparing them to it, adding notes like a flat 5 or flat 7 when needed.
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3. Applying Intervals to a Single String
Ben breaks intervals down to their simplest idea: they’re just the distance between notes, and everything in music grows from that. By mapping the G major scale on a single string, Ben shows how the root leads to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and octave, and how those intervals explain power chords, major and minor chords, and why things sound stable or powerful.
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4. Minor Intervals
Ben expands the major scale by filling in all the missing intervals, explaining minor seconds and thirds, the tritone, flat six and flat seven, and how each one creates tension, colour, and emotion. By hearing these intervals against a drone and applying them on a single string, Ben shows how scales, chords, blues sounds, and modal ideas all come from understanding the distance between notes rather than memorising shapes.
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5. Applying G Major Intervals to all 6 Strings
Ben shows how the same set of intervals repeats across all strings and octaves, explaining that scales aren’t new shapes but the same notes rearranged in different positions. By thinking in a 360-degree way around the fretboard and using three-notes-per-string shapes, Ben explains how understanding intervals makes it easier to phrase musically, move between keys, and apply scales anywhere on the neck rather than memorising patterns.
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6. 3 Note Per String Intervals
Ben breaks down how the G major scale works in a three-notes-per-string shape, showing that it’s still just the same set of intervals repeated across the neck. By understanding where the root, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sit inside the shape, Ben explains how scales, pentatonics, arpeggios, and phrases all connect, making it easier to play musically, move between positions, and apply the same ideas in any key rather than memorising isolated patterns.
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7. Intervalic Extensions Explained
Ben explains how chord extensions like 9, 11, and 13 are simply familiar intervals repeated into the second octave, and why they’re named differently for clarity when talking about harmony. By relating everything back to the same seven intervals of the major scale, Ben shows how chords, arpeggios, and melodic phrases all come from the same framework, encouraging players to understand the sounds first, apply ideas gradually, and focus on musical feel rather than getting lost in theory labels.