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.