Scales: Layering
Goal: To combine elements of music with improvisational concepts.
Out of Tempo
Speaking.
Beginning
Accelerando/Ritardando, Cresendo/Decrescendo, Compound Meter with Arithmetic, Patterning, Call and Response.
Intermediate
Crescendo/Decrescendo, Triplets, Scales with Arithmetic, Change, Smorgasbord.
Advanced
Compound Meter, Melody, Harmony with Call and Response, Change, Smorgasbord.
In Tempo
Singing/Playing
Teacher landscapes a time signature and with varied tempos in two-four, three-four, four-four, or six-eight.
Beginning
Choose a minor scale in a key other than C. Using subtraction, have different students sing one fewer note of the scale.
Intermediate
Two students sing a scale together in thirds. Using the prompt, "change," students flip which note of the harmony they are singing.
Advanced
Using call and response, each student sings a different scale: major or minor and in a key other than C. Layer with dynamic, texture and meter changes.