Seventh Chords: Patterning
Goal: To hear, sing, and play seventh chords in root and inverted positions (major, minor, and dominant).
Out of Tempo
Speaking, singing, playing.
Beginning
- Teacher plays melodically all four positions of a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord.
- Teacher replays them in a different order and prompts, “Which order did I play them in?”
- Students identify the order.
Intermediate
- Teacher plays melodically all four positions of a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord (choosing two chords).
- Teacher replays them in a different order and prompts, “Which order did I play them in and which types did I play?”
- Students identify the order and type.
Advanced
- Teacher plays harmonically all four positions of a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord (choosing two).
- Teacher replays them in a different order and prompts, “Which order did I play them in and which types did I play?”
- Students identify the order and type.
In Tempo
Teacher sets up a tempo, time signature, and tonality in two-four, three-four, four-four, or compound meter, one note per measure.
Beginning
- Teacher sets up in a slow tempo, four-four time, and major or minor key and plays a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord, one chord position per measure.
- Teacher prompts, “Sing the inversions of the seventh chord, one note per measure, rotating up and down in the order, root position, first, second, third inversion."
- Students do so.
Intermediate
- Teacher sets up in a slow tempo, four-four time, and major/or minor key and plays a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord, one chord position per measure.
- Teacher prompts, “Sing the inversions of the seventh chord, one note per measure, rotating up and down in the order, root position, third, second, and first inversion."
- Students do so.
Advanced
- Teacher sets up in a slow tempo, four-four time, and major/or minor key and plays a major, minor, or dominant seventh chord, one chord position per measure.
- Teacher prompts, “Sing the inversions of the seventh chord, two notes per measure, rotating up and down in the order, root position, third, second, first inversion."
- Students do so.