Thinking in Intervals

Do you think in intervals, or in notes?

When I first started getting into music, I only thought in notes. I only memorized notes, and scale shapes. I used to have sheets and sheets of notes from songs I figured out. I understood what intervals were, but I didn’t think in intervals. I didn’t care. 

Phone Purchases and Decoding Music

So I was at my office humming a tune during a break in my ever hectic schedule the other day, and it occurred to me that I needed some sort of portable musical instrument to decode the melody of the tune I was humming. Both to sate my own curiosity for this particular tune, and with the further intent of being able to unlock any tune, anywhere. Sentence fragment.

Up until the dawn of the smartphone age, your options were a harmonica, and a Stylophone. Maybe a pan flute too. For those of you not familiar with a Stylophone, it is a 1960′s-era touch-sensitive synthesizer. You played it with a plastic stick.

It is my understanding that Stylophones aren’t too available these days, and unfortunately harmonicas & pan flutes don’t come with headphone jacks.