I started adding a minor scale to our music routine and the payoff was HUGE! Students started noticing songs in minor keys on a regular basis! Here’s some opening routines that I use in the beginning of the year, for about 8 weeks.
We sing and sign the “do” scale and then the “la” scale. If we sing the major scale in F, we sing the minor scale in Dm. I always keep them in their relative minor.
This PPT slide is a visual to help them see the relationship between notes. You sing up and down every column. I do not have them sign this exercise because it gets in the way and slows them down.
D, DRD, DRMRD, DRMFMRD, DRMFSFMRD, etc.
Starting on the left, sing up to high do. One group holds on the blue, one on the yellow, one on the green and one on the orange. Watching the T (or S leader), you resolve to your final note. Take green, for example. Green would sing, d r m f s l t d t l s f———-m.
Song Wheel 