The tritone is 6 semitones (6 frets on the guitar). Listen to it below, then test yourself with the trainer.
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See Mentorship PlansSix frets, exactly half an octave. Restless and unstable, it's the tension inside every dominant 7th chord that makes it want to resolve. Once you know it, it's one of the easiest intervals to spot, because nothing else sounds like it.
A tritone is 6 semitones, so from A it goes to Eb. Turned upside down it becomes a tritone, which is why the tritone splits the octave exactly in half.
With the root on the low E string at the 5th fret, the tritone is on the same string, 6 frets up; on the A string, 1 fret higher; on the D string, 4 frets lower.
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A tritone is 6 semitones, which is 6 frets on the guitar.
Turned upside down, a tritone becomes a tritone. The two always add up to an octave.
Going up, The Simpsons theme starts with a tritone.