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Music Interval Chart: All Intervals, Including Chromatic Intervals, with Names and Examples

Table 11 below, the Music Interval Chart, lists all of the intervals, including the chromatic intervals, within an octave. Usually (but not always), you reckon an interval—which is always two notes—as starting from the lower note and going to the upper note, as in the “Example” column in Table 11.

TABLE 11 Music Interval Chart

Interval Number of Semitones Example
  • Minor Second
  • Major Second
  • Minor Third
  • Major Third
  • Perfect Fourth
  • Augmented Fourth
  • Perfect Fifth
  • Minor Sixth
  • Major Sixth
  • Minor Seventh
  • Major Seventh
  • Octave
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • C – C♯
  • C – D
  • C – E♭
  • C – E
  • C – F
  • C – F♯
  • C – G
  • C – A♭
  • C – A
  • C – B♭
  • C – B
  • C – C

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