{"id":4802,"date":"2012-05-04T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2012-05-04T05:14:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T05:14:06","slug":"music-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/music-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Music at home…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Daughter and I have exchanges about music theory. She calls them “wacky questions,” and enjoys it when I give her puzzles about harmonic relationships. “If A is ONE, then what is the TWO chord? The FIVE chord?” “Spell a G major triad.” <\/em> Etc., etc.<\/p>\n

Recently we began moving into questions about harmonic sequences. “In the key of C, what is a I-IV-VI-V-I progression?” <\/em><\/p>\n

She’s seven. I don’t have any huge expectations about this; it’s just a fun game we play. This is way out of her league.<\/p>\n

Or is it?<\/p>\n

At tonight’s guitar practice I was coaching her into a D-minor chord (the standard one at the bottom of the neck). She started playing a sequence, not too adroitly…and when I tried to steer her in the direction of something I had planned, she said, “Stop! I want to play my own progression!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Then she dictated: “D minor, A minor, C, A minor, D major, G, A major, D.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I did a little on-the-spot voice-leading to make two harmony parts and we sang through them. Cool. My daughter’s composing her own chord patterns.<\/p>\n

Then she told me to “write it down, so we don’t forget it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’s time to show her more about notation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Daughter and I have exchanges about music theory. She calls them “wacky questions,” and enjoys it when I give her puzzles about harmonic relationships. “If A is ONE, then what is the TWO chord? The FIVE chord?” “Spell a G major triad.” Etc., etc. Recently we began moving into questions about harmonic sequences. “In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,9,310,32],"tags":[906],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-music","category-personal","category-warrens-music","tag-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}