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
- Teacher speaks or plays four notes of a dominant seventh chord.
- Students identify the seventh chord.
- Then students speak or play four notes of a dominant seventh chord.
- Teacher identifies the seventh chord.
Intermediate
- Teacher speaks or plays a dominant seventh chord and passes it to a student.
- The student speaks or plays the same dominant seventh chord and passes it to the next student.
- The process repeats until all students have passed the same dominant seventh chord to the next student.
Advanced
- A student starts the process of passing a dominant seventh chord to the next student.
- 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
- 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.
- The student repeats the dominant seventh chord in the same tempo and passes it to the next student.
Intermediate
- 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.
- The teacher repeats the dominant seventh chord and passes it to the next student.
Advanced
- A student sets a time signature in a given tempo and passes a dominant seventh chord to a student.
- The process repeats until all students have sung the same dominant seventh chord.