They way you've been describing tones in lessons has been wildly helpful for helping me remember them and which one is named which! It's also so useful for actually identifying diminished cords
The first time I encountered the idea I was intrigued, and then I embraced it. Yes, I have traditional theory solid; can recognize M6, dim7; know they are the "same enharmonically" and can hear it. But there is in fact a more solid instant certainty because it's more concrete. My "go to" were the first two notes of "It came upon a midnight clear..." - or using the m3 down from the next octave as a test. The "fat" as a kind of primary small interval, like even notches in a measuring tape, gives something else. That is why I embraced this. It doesn't mean abandoning anything I learned before - it completes it.
They way you've been describing tones in lessons has been wildly helpful for helping me remember them and which one is named which! It's also so useful for actually identifying diminished cords
That comment is super helpful and I wish I got more such comments! :)
The first time I encountered the idea I was intrigued, and then I embraced it. Yes, I have traditional theory solid; can recognize M6, dim7; know they are the "same enharmonically" and can hear it. But there is in fact a more solid instant certainty because it's more concrete. My "go to" were the first two notes of "It came upon a midnight clear..." - or using the m3 down from the next octave as a test. The "fat" as a kind of primary small interval, like even notches in a measuring tape, gives something else. That is why I embraced this. It doesn't mean abandoning anything I learned before - it completes it.
It seems that most people don't realize that the idea of universal intervals is just a continuation of traditional theory.