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Seventh Chords: Layering



Goal: To combine elements of music with improvisational concepts.


In Tempo

Singing/Playing

Teacher landscapes a time signature and with varied tempos in two-four, three-four, four-four, or six-eight.

Beginning

Four students sing a different chord tone of a seventh chord, layering different rhythm patterns, textures, and dynamics.

Intermediate

Students sing seventh chords as melodies, altering the chord type using call and response and the prompt, "change."

Advanced

Students improvise melodies over different seventh chords combining melodic and rhythm patterns in different meters. Can be done in harmony as well with two students singing or playing over the seventh chords.