30.82Practice with "Happy Birthday"

Its opening scale-degree pattern:

5 5 6 5 1 7

Version 1:

literal.

Version 2:

change rhythm.

Version 3:

approach 6 chromatically.

Version 4:

octave-displace 1.

Version 5:

fragment 5-5-6 and sequence it.

Version 6:

reharmonize the cadence.

Version 7:

add counter-line.

Version 8:

paraphrase while preserving opening rhythm and phrase endings.

This is exactly the kind of exercise we're aiming for.