Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first interval of a popular song. Such songs are known as "reference songs". 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. Here are some examples for each interval: • "
Rule, Britannia!" • "
As time goes by" • "
Maquillaje" by
Mecano •
Theme of the One Ring from
The Lord of the Rings • Theme from
Jaws • "
Stella by Starlight" • "
Für Elise" • Theme from
Jurassic Park • "
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" • "
Silent Night" • "
Never Gonna Give You Up" • "
Strangers in the Night" • "
Satin Doll" • "
Pictures at an exhibition" by
Modest Mussorgsky • "
The Sound of Silence" by
Simon and Garfunkel • "
A Cruel Angel's Thesis" (theme from
Neon Genesis Evangelion) • "
Axel F" (the
Beverly Hills Cop theme song) • "
Smoke on the Water" • "
The Impossible Dream" • "
Hallelujah" • "
Hey Jude" • "
Frosty the Snowman" • "
Can We Fix It?" from
Bob the Builder • "
When the Saints Go Marching In" • "
Kumbaya" • "
Goodnight, Ladies" • "
Vois sur ton chemin" from “
Les Choristes” • "
Stressed out” by
Twenty one pilots (when it says, “wish we could TURN BACK time”) • "
Auld Lang Syne" •
The Flintstones Theme • "
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" •
Theme from Star Trek • "
Somewhere" from
West Side Story • "
The Winner Takes It All" • "
Watermelon Man" • "
An American in Paris" • "
Lady Jane" (refrain) • "
Take On Me" • Theme from
Fantasy Island • "
I Love You" • “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Nat King Cole)” • "
Maybe" • "
Over the Rainbow" • "
Blue Bossa" • "
The Christmas Song" • "
Starman" • "
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" • "
Heigh-Ho” from “
Snow White" • "
When You Wish Upon a Star" • "
The Sound of Silence” by
Simon and Garfunkel (when it says: AND THE, VISION) • "
Don't Look Back In Anger" • "
Willow Weep for Me" In addition, there are various
solmization systems (including
solfeggio,
sargam, and
numerical sight-singing) that assign specific syllables to different notes of the
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. ==References==