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Creative Teachers – Primary choral warm-ups – 16. Descending minor triads

[Music playing]

RACHEL KELLY: Often, when we do our warm-ups, we tend to do them in major keys, if you notice that? Like a major scale, or a major arpeggio, or something like that. We're going to try one in a minor key. So, we're going to start up a bit higher, and we're going to do this on an oooh vowel again. (SINGING) So, let's start here, and we're going to sing in a minor triad. Oooh, oooh, oooh.

Sing that for me, and . . .

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh.

RACHEL KELLY: Then, we're going to go back to the note we started on, like this. (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh. Sing that, and . . .

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh.

RACHEL KELLY: And, then we're going to get to our next note to start us off by going down a semitone from where we finish this, so, it's (SINGING) oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

Very spooky-sounding. Try it, and . . .

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) And, then that's the note we start the next one on. Oooh, oooh, oooh. Try it, and . . .

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

RACHEL KELLY: (SINGING) Then, we start from there.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

RACHEL KELLY: And, from there.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

RACHEL KELLY: Yeah, so we want to make sure we're getting a minor triad going down . . . because we're not used to doing this exercise in a minor key, it would probably help to have a piano helping us. But, let's just try one more, so (SINGING) oooh, the minor triad is oooh, oooh, oooh. Sing that.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh-ooh.

RACHEL KELLY: Well done, that one was lovely.