Creative Task Ideas

Sequences
Take a short melody or phrase and
shift the notes up or down one note.
The distances (intervals) between
the notes are still the same but you
have developed the melody.

B CD

A B

B C

Repetition
You CAN repeat stuff it needs to be
memorable, so use structure to help
this i.e. ABA structure, repeat the
first section!
You could repeat with a slight change
towards the end.

Phrasing
Generally 2 or 4 bars in length
Try to start melodic phrases and
end melodic phrases on the tonic
note
Try question and answer phrases
i.e. 2 bars of question and 2 bars of
answer.

Changing key
Switch to a related key in the middle of the piece. The
most common way is to move to the relative minor.
Imagine we are in C major (no black notes/sharps/flats).
Count down two notes from C major to get A the
relative minor of C major is A minor. A minor uses all
the same notes as C major (because it is related!) but it
has a sharpened 7th (count up 7 notes from A) of G#.
Notes of C major = C D E F G A B C
Notes of A minor = A B C D E F G# A