Lavender’s Blue
We’re going to explore an English folk song and use it to help our students discover new elements.
Pentatonic Warm-up
Let’s just sing up and down the pentatonic scale:
Next, sing the intervals and describe them as you sing. Here they are labelled:
Note that when we go up a step, it’s a 2nd, two steps is a 3rd. So we’re counting the fence posts, not the fence panels.
We’re also jumping from a major 3rd to a perfect 5th. That’s because have a mystery note to discover later!
As a challenge, sing it the pentatonic scale descending too. Remember to change the names of the intervals – I have written them out on the right of the picture above.
To help do the intervals backwards, notice that if you add up the numbers on the left to the numbers on the right, it adds up to 9.
Keep singing through the intervals and describe the intervals as you sing.
I think do to mi is the hardest interval to sing. Once you get to mi, you then have it in your inner hearing for the do-re.
Lovely! Looking forward to singing the folk song next!
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