Student’s age: College level music major beginner (age 18 or above)

Goals: Learn how to accurately identify intervals, such as Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Perfect 5th, and Octave, using my ear training app, and musictheory.net app.

Timeframe: 30 minutes.

Resources and Materials: Students need to bring a tablet or laptop, as well as a notebook and a pencil, to write down the answers to interval exercises and take notes.

Step by step description of the lesson or intervention:

1. Introduction to Intervals:

   • Begin by explaining what intervals are: the distance between two notes.

   • Show examples on piano or from my ear training app or musictheory.net.

2. Naming and Classifying Intervals:

   • Teach names of the intervals and their types (major, perfect, and octave)

   • Use a staff to illustrate how these intervals are visually represented.

3. Singing Intervals:

   • Start with simple intervals (major, perfect 4th and 5th, and octave).

4. Listening Exercises:

   • Play intervals and ask students to identify them by ear.

5. Use of Reference Songs:

   • Associate each interval with a well-known song such as “somewhere over the rainbow” because it starts with an octave.

Assessment:

1. Interval Identification Quiz: Students identify playing intervals.

2. Dictation Quiz: Be able to check their ability to transcribe melodies and rhythms.

3. Sight-Singing Test: Assess their ability to accurately sight-read and sing a piece of music, demonstrating their understanding of pitch and rhythm.

Adaptations, extensions, and modifications: The pace of learning depends on each student's abilities and their speed of adaptation. If students demonstrate an understanding of the materials prepared for the class, I will then introduce them to the next set of intervals, including major and minor 2nds, 3rds, 6ths, and 7ths. However, if a student struggles with understanding basic intervals, I will revisit these intervals at a slower pace and practice them in one key to thoroughly reinforce their pitch recognition.