As a beginner, I came across a great method for learning intervals: Think of the opening notes of a song. I.e, Star Spangled Banner's first 2 notes are a minor third. Happy Birthday is a 2nd. Beethoven's 5th is a Major 3rd, and so on.
If you learn how to read the circle of fifths it will help you get to the notes in each key faster. You will know exactly how many sharp or flats the key has and which notes they are. It is a great tool. There are a lot of books on it. It isn't hard to understand once someone walks you through it. Once you start using it you will get faster at it. For me relating it to the face of an analog clock worked for me. It has 12 keys on it just like the 12 numbers on the clock. Another similarity is that the sharps side counts up the sharps just like the clock numbers. G has one sharp and is where the 1 is on the clock, D 2 sharps at the 2 position, A, 3 sharps at the 3 position and so on. That will get you part of the way around it.
@bryarblue72 to follow up on this, if the difference between "intervals" vs. harmonizing a scale is unclear:
I would use these terms instead, even though a lot of people (including me, sometimes) use what you wrote.
What I wrote is also common...
That’s one of the best guitar music channels.Most people think theory in C and convert it to start with.
Learn the caged shapes for that major scale and the pentatonic. So you can easily move them around.
Learn all the notes on the fingerboard.
Get that solid and automatic first.
Then learn intervals chord spelling and triads
(By now you’ll be past a lot of players)
Then subscribe to Dani’s channel
And systematically go through his applied music theory,harmony and rhythm videos.
I totally agree.
Meh. You seem to arbitrarily pick the 3rd as the only relevant thing. Dorian is Dorian. It has the sound of the minor 3rd. It also has the sound of the major 6th. Its Dorian.I totally agree.
However calling an interval "minor" or "major" can be very confusing when you are trying to use it in the context of a scale or chord.
For example, A Dorian is a minor scale (or mode, depending on your view). However, it has a natural 6th... It also has a natural 2nd.
Thinking in that context for a person who is learning, it's very confusing to think, "ok, A Dorian is minor but has a major 2nd a major 6th".
It's much more straightforward to indicate only when the natural interval is altered to be flat or sharp... And far less confusing for those just learning.
Of course, in my opinion
Edit:
To extend my A Dorian example, it's a lot simpler to note only the places where the scale deviates from the major. Which can be said simply as A Dorian has a flat 3rd and a flat 7th. Which is most certainly where the use of "minor" intervals originates.
Anyway, that's moving father away from purely learning the sound of intervals as was your original point.
Edit 2:
I should point out that I'm generally ok with the use of "minor 3rd" because the 3rd determines if a scale is minor or major.
I didn't arbitrarily pick anything. The 3rd interval defines if a scale is major or minor...
Dorian is the second mode of the major scale. Dorian is not a scale itself. We can get pedantic all day long. If you are to the point where becoming fluent with the Dorian mode is your next step, you should be able to interchangeably use stuff like “flat 7th” and “minor 7th”. Personally, I think framing “Dorian is minor” is limiting and made understanding what Dorian was more challenging than it should have been. Maybe I’m weird.
As clearly demonstrated by the previous quote
Dorian should be used like any other scale .
