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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by a major second he

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outranks captain instant and first lieutenant jiffy but answers to colonel [muscial notes dressed as soldiers]

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lickety-split...Okay this questions based on an excerpt that will

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be played twice it's our job to determine the intervals being played and

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choose the correct notation for the audio sample all right ready to rock out

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to your new favorite jam.. crank the volume here we go [numbers 1, 2 and 3 appear]

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Huh, awesome I think Aerosmith wrote that alright done hitting replay great, so

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which of the following was played and here are potential answers.... alright so

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what was that haunting ethereal tune and why do we suddenly have the urge to [Mice wearing glasses]

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donate spectacles to mice well first let's figure out the interval or err

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distance we're hearing between the first two notes well it sounds like they're

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very close though we're pretty sure they haven't exchanged BFF necklaces yet so if [musical notes in a park]

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they're not BFFs maybe there's a note they're both closer to maybe we should

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take a look at a piano to make sure and thanks to the power of movie magic we [man pulls piano out of back pocket]

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just happen to have one in our back pocket here oh we can see that there is

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indeed a note in between D and C it's D flat or C sharp depending on which note [Finger pointing to D flat on piano]

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he's hanging out with that means we're not hearing answer B, because the

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interval between D and C sharp is only a half step or a minor second which is too

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small just like every airplane seat we've ever sat in we can use the same [Man squished sitting next to someone on an airplane]

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reasoning to eliminate answer D the interval from D flat to C is only a half

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step or a minor second clearly some notes don't respect personal space

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alright so we're halfway there hello livin on a prayer, sorry.. So in the clip [Bon Jovi singing]

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we listen to the second interval we heard was also a whole step or a major

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second so let's check out answer A the interval between C and B is only a half

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step or minor second so that can't be it we've got to go down another half step [Musical notes]

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to get a major second which we can do by flatting the B that means that the [B flat added to musical notes]

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correct notation is answer C. The intervals from D to C and C to B flat

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are both whole steps or major seconds... looks like some notes respect boundaries

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now if you'll excuse us we're off to start a non-profit to aid blind mice [boy and girl stood by a stand for guide dogs for blind mice]

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