Seventh Chords: Call and Response

1. Teacher speaks, sings or plays a major seventh chord.
2. Students repeat.

1. Teacher speaks, sings or plays a minor seventh chord.
2. Students repeat.

1. Teacher speaks, sings, plays a dominant seventh chord.
2. Students repeat.

1. Teacher prompts, “Each students sings a different seventh chord,” going round the room until each student has sung a different seventh chord.
2. Students do so.

Teacher sets up a tempo, playing a seventh chord as a melody or a harmony.

Speaking, singing, playing.

1. Teacher plays a seventh chord in a tempo, starting on a different root for each student, and prompts, “Sing the seventh chord from bottom up and down.”
2. A student does so.
3. The process continues until all students have sung all three seventh chords, one chord at a time.

1. Teacher plays the three seventh chords – major, dominant, minor (in that order) in a tempo, starting on a different root for each student, and prompts, “Sing all three seventh chords from bottom up and down.”
2. A student does so.
3. The process continues until all students have sung all three seventh chords, three chords in a row.

1. Teacher plays the three seventh chords – major, dominant, minor (in that order) in a tempo, starting on a different note for each student, and prompts, “Each student sings one of the chord tones from bottom up and holds their note while the others join in.”
2. Four students do so.
3. The process continues until all students have sung all three seventh chords, building them harmonically from bottom up, starting on different notes.

Same as above but teacher asks the students to start on a chord tone other than the root.