Help... Start on an A note and go up to a sixth?

Question

Help.. i am totally confused about the sixth part do i go up six notes in total or like six notes including the A?
the whole question is Start on A. Go up a sixth; down a second; down a third; up an octave;down a fourth; up a third... Part of a question in an interval worksheet
Please and thank you

Answer 1

Please disregard the whole science of the thing. If you are trying to put in the notes for the intervals its easy. You start on A, which is the 2 space on the staff. Starting from A which is 1 you go up 6... which is F on the staff (top line). Octave (8 notes up) from A is high A which is another line up (not space) from F but you dont see the line since its a ledger line (you draw it in). (F then G then A)
All you have to do is count from A, how many up or down you want

Answer 2

In music theory, an interval is the relationship between two notes or pitches, the lower and higher members of the interval. It often refers to those two notes themselves (otherwise known as a dyad). Larger intervals are described as wide and smaller ones as narrow (for example, a sixth is wider than a third), but these are only relative terms.

Intervals may occur two ways:

vertical (or harmonic) if the two notes sound simultaneously
linear (or melodic), if the notes sound successively.
An interval class is an interval measured by the shortest distance possible between its two pitch classes.

Frequency ratios
In just intonation intervals are commonly labelled according to the ratio of frequencies of the two pitches. Important intervals are those using the lowest integers, such as 1/1, 2/1, 3/2, etc. This system is frequently used to describe intervals in non-Western music. This method is also often used in theoretical explanations of equal-tempered intervals used in European tonal music which explain their use through their approximation of just intervals.

Interval number and quality

In diatonic or tonal theory, intervals are labelled according to their diatonic function and according to the number of members or degrees they span in a diatonic scale.

The interval number of a note from a given tonic note is the number of staff positions enclosed within the interval, as shown at right. Intervals larger than an octave are called compound intervals; for example, a tenth is known as a compound third. Intervals larger than a thirteenth are rarely spoken of, since going above this by stacking thirds would result in a double octave (but see 8va for use of 15ma).

The name of any interval is further qualified using the terms perfect, major, minor, augmented, and diminished. This is called its interval quality.

Unison, fourth, fifth, octave. These intervals may be perfect, augmented, or diminished.
A perfect fourth is five semitones.
A perfect fifth is seven semitones.
A perfect octave is twelve semitones.
A perfect unison occurs between notes of the same pitch, so it is zero semitones.
In each case, an augmented interval contains one more semitone, a diminished interval one fewer.
Second, third, sixth, seventh. These intervals may be major, minor, augmented, or diminished.
Major seconds are two semitones, also called a whole step, minor seconds are one semitone, also called a half step.
Major thirds are four semitones, minor thirds are three semitones.
Major sixths are nine semitones, minor sixths are eight semitones.
Major sevenths are eleven semitones, minor sevenths are ten semitones.

In each case, the augmented interval contains one semitone more than the major interval, and the diminished interval one semitone fewer than the minor interval.

It is possible to have doubly-diminished and doubly-augmented intervals, but these are quite rare.

Run over the the link below and scroll down to Comparison of different interval naming systems