JoshMc

I have no problem naming or identifying intervals but I have to admit that, when looking at a piece of sheet music, I am certainly not very quick at it. The reason is that I learned music, as a guitarist, from ear and tablature. I never had reason to learn to recognize intervals and such in scores until I wanted to start writing more than just rock music or hip hop. Now it seems like I could benefit a lot from being able to look at a piece of sheet music and recognize intervals as easily as I could if I were picking out two random notes on a guitar neck.

So, my question is, does anyone have some tips for how to do this quickly? I can pick out the actual interval pretty much instantly, just not whether it's major, minor, augmented, etc. When I want to figure that out I usually have to visualize a guitar neck. Is there a shortcut for this so that I don't have to visualize anything other than what's in front of me and I don't have to count every semitone to figure out if it's minor or whatever? Any help would be appreciated as I've found nothing after scouring the net for a couple days.