Place in any position on staff to indicate key center and starting tones.
Apply ‘do’ Clef to staff to indicate first tone of major key center (or third tone of minor). Change position of ‘do’ Clef as melody modulates.
Highlight tone set (all steps that are included in any given melody) by layering a yellow Disc-Note behind each letter or number in set.
Use Mini Overlays on overhead projector to guide students to each successive tone as melody is sung or played.
Hold up large overlays and guide chorus or instrumentalists with a baton, large mallet, etc. Touch each step in the melody as it is sung or performed by the students.
For choral warm-ups, have the students sing on neutral syllables and along with pitch organizing tools. Students can also ‘translate’ the tools being presented. For example: they can sing sol-fa while numbers are displayed or sing letter names while sol-fa is displayed.
Instruct students to apply Pentatonic Sol-fa Overlay or regular Sol-fa Overlay to staff and sing or perform music to increase awareness of scales, steps and leaps.
