Triads: Call and Response

Speaking, singing, playing.

From bottom up, from top down.

1. Teacher prompts, “Speaking, each student builds a different triad type, one student at a time, from bottom up, starting with the third of the triad.”
2. Students do so.

1. Teacher prompts, “Speaking, each student builds a different triad type, one student at a time, from bottom up, starting with the fifth of the triad.”
2. Students do so.

1. Using the same as above, students sing the chord tones, one student at a time.
2. Students continue the process changing chord name and type. For example: Bb major, a diminished.

Teacher or student sets up a tempo, time signature, tonality – chord type, one note per measure.

1. A student sets up a tempo, time signature, and prompts to one student, “Pick a chord.”
2. A student does so and prompts to a different student, “Sing that triad from bottom up in first inversion.”
3. A different student does so.

1. A student sets up a tempo, time signature, and prompts to one student, “Pick a chord.”
2. A student does so and prompts to a different student, “Sing that triad from top down in first inversion, one note per measure.”
3. A different student does so.

1. A student sets up a tempo, time signature, and prompts to one student, “Pick a chord.”
2. A student does so and prompts to three different students, “Sing that triad from top down/bottom up in first/second inversion, one note per measure, building each note one at a time.”
3. Three different students do so.

1. Same as above but three students sing their individual notes at the same time (in harmony).
2. Process continues until all students have participated using all triad types, different starting roots, chord positions, upward/downward, melodically or harmonically, are shared.