Seventh Chords: Layering
Goal: To combine elements of music with improvisational concepts.
Out of Tempo
Speaking.
Beginning
Accelerando/Ritardando, Crescendo/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
Using call and response, students trade dominant, major, and minor seventh chords.
Intermediate
Students sing individual chord tones of a different seventh chord layering them with different dynamics, textures, and accents.
Advanced
Using the smorgasbord and the prompt, ‘change,’ four students sing in harmony, adding notes from bottom up.