Hear the interval
🎯 Try it
How many semitones are in a perfect fifth?
📝 Start at a keyboard
Use a piano or keyboard and a comfortable singing range. Match one note first. This guide does not generate audio.
✅ Listen, sing, check
Play C, then E. Sing each note on a neutral syllable; replay to compare. Repeat with C–G and C–C. Begin with widely different intervals before adding the second and fourth.
Ask a partner to choose one of these intervals without showing the keys. Name it, then reveal the notes. Record misses by interval, not just a total score. If working alone, record a shuffled set with an answer list and listen later without viewing the list.
📝 Use these ready-made listening rounds
Work with a partner at a keyboard. The player reads the rounds below; the listener looks away and writes answers 1–5. Play each pair upwards, one note then the other, at the same comfortable volume. Allow one replay.
🔑 Player card and answer key
Round 1: 1. C–G (perfect fifth); 2. C–D (major second); 3. C–C one octave higher (octave); 4. C–F (perfect fourth); 5. C–E (major third).
Round 2: 1. D–F♯ (major third); 2. D–A (perfect fifth); 3. D–G (perfect fourth); 4. D–E (major second); 5. D–D one octave higher (octave).
For a missed pair, name the interval, replay it, and ask the listener to sing or hum the distance before retrying. Swap roles using the second round. The card is concealed visually, not access-restricted.
If practising alone, use your own recording of the supplied rounds and look away from the answers while listening.
📝 Transfer
Try D–F♯ for a major third and D–A for a perfect fifth. The starting note changes while the interval distance stays the same. Do not identify an interval only by remembering a particular starting pitch.
✅ Check your understanding
D to F♯ matches which interval?