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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by ear training making your puny [Woman with kettlebells as earrings]

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we gear strong enough to hold the heaviest of earrings yeah and we love

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you okay this question is based on an excerpt that will be played twice we [Excerpt appears]

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have to determine the intervals being played and choose the correct notation

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for the audio sample shoot good thing we did all that ear training man

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so which of the following is played alright here are your potential answers

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Wow somebody cutting onions in here what's this salty liquid running down [Person cutting onions and man cries]

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our cheeks down music always making us feel things alright so clearly we just

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heard something sad seriously look up there's probably a gloomy rain cloud [Rain cloud raining on mans head]

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floating above you but we'll have a good cry later for now we have to identify

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what quality of triad we're hearing major minor augmented or diminished well

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to determine this quality with our ears we have to listen for each triads mood [Man and woman listening to music]

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or the basic way it makes us feel for example a major triad generally sounds

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bubbly and simple there's a reason why major chords make up the majority of

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sugary sweet bubblegum pop music but that's not what we heard so answer a is

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not a hit an Augmented triad starts off happy like a major triad but leaves one [Augmented triad and smiley face appears]

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with a feeling that something's amiss like how your joy over eating half a

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birthday cake also leaves you feeling a little regretful a very specific feeling [Man clutching stomach with birthday cake]

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but not the one we felt so we can lose see a diminished triad sounds like a

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situation that has gone from bad to worse as in the train is coming down the [Woman tied on train track and train appears]

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tracks and these knots are really tight okay so that particular situation might

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not be super relatable that you get the gist it doesn't fit what we heard so

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that eliminates be a minor chord there's a little on the sad side it's a bit

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melancholy a bit sad a bit you know like what we heard in our question yep our [Minor chord appears and sad rain cloud appears]

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answer is B what we heard was a minor chord good thing we have the strongest

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years around we put our goes up against Arnold Schwarzenegger is any day of the [Woman with kettlebell earrings beside Schwarzenegger]

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week but only our ears anything else and we have to run away screaming [Girl runs away from Arnold]

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