If you want to get a minor triad from the fifth try Aqualung. It's a dumb riff you've heard a billion times that is easy to recall."Sit-" is your starting note, the fifth."-ting" is the root"on" is the minor third.

barndog wrote:Wagner's Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)(root)Bum - (fourth)bum bum bumIroot)Bum - (fifth) bee (third) da (fourth) bumThat's a good one!For descending from a major 3rd or a 5th, Three blind mice is a jam.Three blind mice3........2......1See how they run5....4.....4......3As for the minor 3rd, any fan of heavy rock music hears this in almost every riff. When the levee breaks was my go to for a minor 3rd reference.The 6th can be hard to hear. I remember they taught us that the NBC chimes are (1,6,4). Although, if you want to get snotty about 3 meaningless notes, they probably meant it to be a cadence (5, 3, 1.)projectMalamute wrote:start with E, first as the third: sing C-E-G(major), then C#-E-G#(minor), then C#-E-G(diminished), then C-E-G#(augmented). Then as the fifth: sing A-C#-E(major), A-C-E(minor), A#-C#-E(diminished), Ab-C-E(augmented).You just get the E as a reference, no cheating. This is hard! Great exercise for the ear.

Just going to take a second to point out that this is out there...