What Is A Major 2nd? | Music In A Minute | #shorts

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This YouTube #shorts video demonstrates how to learn the interval of a major second (2nd). This is also called a "whole step" or a "step" here in the USA and in Canada and some other places it's called a "tone" or a "whole tone." White-white, white-black, and black-black keys are used to demonstrate how major 2nds may look on the keyboard, depending on which notes are written on the page. The important things to remember are that major 2nds are called "major" because there is one empty key in between the two keys and they're called “2nds” because the notes are two consecutive letter names.

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