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Seventh Chords: Call and Response



Goal: To hear the dominant seventh chord by using social activities.


Out of Tempo

Speaking or playing, one seventh chord per exercise – changing chords is done in the Change chapter.

Beginning

  1. Teacher speaks or plays four notes of a dominant seventh chord.
  2. Students identify the seventh chord.
  3. Then students speak or play four notes of a dominant seventh chord.
  4. Teacher identifies the seventh chord.

Intermediate

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

Advanced

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

In Tempo

Teacher sets up a slow tempo, in two-four, three-four, or four-four, one note per measure at first.

Beginning

  1. Teacher sets a time signature in a given tempo and sings a dominant seventh chord one note per measure and passes it to the next student.
  2. The student repeats the dominant seventh chord 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 a dominant seventh chord one note per measure and passes it to the teacher.
  2. The teacher repeats the dominant seventh chord and passes it to the next student.

Advanced

  1. A student sets a time signature in a given tempo and passes a dominant seventh chord to a student.
  2. The process repeats until all students have sung the same dominant seventh chord.