Scales: Call and Response

Speaking, singing, playing.

Numbers, letters, solfege.

1. Teacher speaks a scale in a given major or minor key up and down.
2. Students repeat.

1. Teacher speaks a scale in a given major or minor key and stops somewhere along the way.
2. Students continue from where the teacher left off.

1. A student leads speaking a scale in a given major or minor key and stops.
2. The next student continues and stops along the way.
3. The next student continues, etc.

Students lead: choose a tempo, time signature, tonality — one or more notes in a measure.

1. A student sets up a tempo and speaks, sings, plays a scale in a given major or minor key, and rhythm, and stops.
2. Another student continues the scale using the same materials as the previous student and stops along the way.
3. Another student continues the scale same as above.

1. Teacher sets up a tempo in a major or minor key and prompts, “Here’s the number 1 of the scale, you start on number 2 and sing the scale back to number 2.”
2. A student does so.
3. That students prompts, “Here’s number 2, you start on number 3 and sing the scale back to number 2.”
4. The next student does so.
5. The process continues until all students have prompted a scale in this way.

1. Teacher sets up a tempo, time signature, rhythm pattern, major/minor key and prompts, “Each student sings one measure of the scale.”
2. Students go around the room singing one measure of the scale.