interval
G♯ minor second
G♯lowerAupperm21 half steps
One half step, written as a second: the smallest distance between two notes with different letters.
On the keyboard
What is true of it
G♯ up a minor second is A: 1 half step, and 2 letters counting both ends.
Turn it upside down — put the G♯ on top — and it becomes a major seventh. The two numbers always add to nine, and the two sizes to twelve.
It is a dissonance.
Every interval on G♯
G♯ → A♯major second · dissonanceG♯ → Bminor third · imperfect consonanceG♯ → B♯major third · imperfect consonanceG♯ → C♯perfect fourth · perfect consonanceG♯ → C𝄪augmented fourth · dissonanceG♯ → Ddiminished fifth · dissonanceG♯ → D♯perfect fifth · perfect consonanceG♯ → Eminor sixth · imperfect consonanceG♯ → E♯major sixth · imperfect consonanceG♯ → F♯minor seventh · dissonanceG♯ → F𝄪major seventh · dissonance