Curriculum Winding Exercise

• Students will play I, IV, and V chord changes on their instruments

o Musical stimulus response
o pitch differentiation (same or different)
o high vs. low
o 2 notes v. 1 note
• identify octaves of the same pitch
o is it higher or lower octave?
• sing or create intervals
o 2nds
o 5ths
o 3rds
o 4ths
o 6ths
o 7ths
• identifying broken intervals
• identifying intervals played simultaneously
• stack intervals (beginning of chord creation)
• creating a major chord
o tonic and dominant chords
o add a IV chord
o minor chords (6, 3, 2)
• identify tonality and function of chords
o tonic v. dominant v. sub-dominant
• Scales
o major then natural minor
• create chords with specific qualities
o major, minor, dominant 7
o Diminished 7ths
• create a diatonic chord progression
o I, ii, IV, V
• identify diatonic chord extensions (7ths, 9ths, etc.)
o add 7ths
o add 9ths
• identify secondary chord functions
o V7/V
o V7/vi
o V7/IV
• create a diatonic and secondary chord progression using extensions
o I, ii, IV, V
o V7/V
o V7/vi
o V7/IV
• identify altered chord extensions
o flat 7
o sharp/flat 9
• create a progression using altered chord extensions
• identify modulation in a passage.
o Does it modulate?
o Where does it modulate to?
o How does it modulate?
• Create a progression that modulates to a common key