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Harmonic Progressions: Call and Response

Goal: To hear, sing, and play harmonic progressions as a social activity.

Out of Tempo

Speaking or playing one progression per exercise – changing is done in the Change chapter.

Beginning

  1. Teacher speaks or plays the progression, "One, four, five, one."
  2. Students identifies the progression.
  3. Then students speak or play the progression, "One, four, five, one."
  4. Teacher identifies the progression.

Intermediate

  1. Teacher speaks or plays the progression and passes it to a student.
  2. The student speaks or plays the same progression and passes it to the next student.
  3. The process repeats until all students have passed the same progression to the next student.

Advanced

  1. A student starts the process of passing a progression to the next student.
  2. The process continues until all students have passed the same progression to the next student.

In Tempo

Teacher sets up a slow tempo, in two-four, three-four, or four-four.

Beginning

One chord per exercise.

  1. Teacher sets a time signature in a given tempo and sings a I chord of the progression one, four, five, one per measure and passes it to the next student.
  2. The student repeats the progression in the same tempo and passes it to the next student.

Intermediate

  1. A student sets a time signature in a given tempo and sings one chord of the progression one, four, five, one per measure and passes it to the teacher.
  2. The teacher repeats the progression and passes it to the next student.

Advanced

  1. A student sets a time signature in a given tempo and passes the chord progression one, four, five, one to a student.
  2. The process repeats until all students have sung the same progression.