Do you want to know what the most evil and scary sounding interval in music is?
When you go between 2 single notes, and you feel the darkness looming, or the creepy atmosphere that shapes the scary mood.
Now, of course there is no perfect answer to this questions, but let’s explore the top 3 scary intervals of music according to my research and experiments.
But first, I want to hear what your favorite scary intervals in music are, so leave a comment below. Ok, let’s play some scary intervals now!
3 Most Scary Intervals in Music
- The Minor 2nd
- The Tritone
- The Minor 9th
1 – The Minor 2nd
This is probably the most used “scary interval” in music, because it’s so useful and instantly adds darkness into your music. One of the most famous examples of music focusing on this interval is the “Jaws” theme. But you can add it anywhere in a melody, riff or motif to add some dark and cool dissonance.
2 – The Tritone
This is the interval in between the perfect 4th and perfect 5th. Those two intervals are stable, but when you find yourself in “no mans land” in between them, the result is super creepy and dark. In fact, this is the most unstable interval in music, and it was even historically called “Diabolus in Musica”, which means “The Devil in Music”. The sound of the tritone is almost surrealistic, and incredibly dissonant.
3 – The Minor 9th
This evil twin brother to the minor 2nd, as it is in fact a minor 2nd + an octave in distance. I find that this can sound even more dissonant than the minor 2nd, because when you do that big jump the pull towards the octave is so so strong. Which means that when you land on the minor 9th instead, it really sounds creepy.