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== Interval recognition ==
{{Main|Interval recognition}}

[[Interval (music)|Interval]] recognition is also a useful skill for musicians: in order to determine the notes in a [[melody]], a musician must have some ability to recognize intervals. Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first two notes of a popular song.<ref>{{cite book | author=Mayfield, Connie E. | year=2002 | title=Theory Essentials, Volume I: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills | publisher=Schirmer | location=New York | isbn=0-534-57231-6 }}</ref> However, others have shown that such familiar-melody associations are quite limited in scope, applicable only to the specific scale-degrees found in each melody.<ref>Rogers, Michael (1983): "Beyond Intervals: The Teaching of Tonal Hearing," ''Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy'', (6):18-34</ref>

In addition, there are various systems (including [[solfeggio]], [[sargam (music)|sargam]], and [[numerical sight-singing]]) that assign specific syllables to different notes of the [[scale (music)|scale]]. Among other things, this makes it easier to hear how intervals sound in different contexts, such as starting on different notes of the same scale.