1. Echo Patterns


Description: 

The teacher sings or plays short melodic patterns, and students echo them back.

 

Variations:

  • Singing patterns in “nanana” and playing
  • Singing patterns with lyrics and playing 
  • Just playing patterns with the instrument
  • Singing patterns with ABC and playing
  • Singing patterns with sol-fa and playing
  • Playing a drone note (as a support): to feel the tonal colour of each note, as well as the sensation of consonance-dissonance.
  • Transposing echo patterns

Purpose:

Reinforcing pitch recognition and rhythm memory. It is interesting to establish a working map (a collection of notes) beforehand, in order to develop tonal awareness. It is also important to relate this musical material to a piece of music that is being worked on in order to make it more significant.

-Example of melodic echo patterns, in the key of "Alfonsina y el Mar" (experiment with Sole, lesson 2.2.):

- Example of rhythmic echo patterns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuXQg9M0oUI&list=PLHa7IVYgRpC_fk0Gj0v9vfQ_npPjANEXS

 

- Example of common patterns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROR_E5bFEI

 

-Example of transposing echo patterns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Goyz_XzG0g

-Explanations for developing tonal awareness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GihkLbSHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrsSfbLiZE

 

 

 

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