Intro to Solfege and Tonal Patterns

Goal: To become familiar with the "music alphabet" and how pitches can go up, down, or stay monotone to create different musical patterns.

Activities we have been doing:

• Solfege Hopping - like hopscotch, but with singing and jumping on solfege carpet squares

• Tonal Boxes - a visual/aural/tangible approach to tonal patterns taught similarly to phonics

• Pitch Matching - singing the same pitch as the drone

• Echo Singing - repeat back what you heard with the correct pitch and solfege

• Pattern Blending - can you sing two small patterns together into one larger one?