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Triads: Call and Response

Goal: To use social activities to hear, sing, and play triads.

Out of Tempo

Speaking or playing. One triad per exercise – changing triads is done in the Change chapter.

Beginning

  1. Teacher speaks or plays three notes of any triad: major, minor, augmented or diminished.
  2. Students identify the triad.
  3. Then students speak or play three notes of any triad.
  4. Teacher identifies the triad.

Intermediate

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

Advanced

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

In Tempo

Slow tempo, two-four, three-four, or four-four, one note per measure at first.

Beginning

One triad per exercise

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

Advanced

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