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I think a new exercise would be a good/fun idea. This is an exercise that comes from composer Ralph Shapey, via my teacher Amy Kaplan.
Pick five pitches, all within one octave (or so). They should not be components of a diatonic scale. Analyze them for their intervallic content by counting how many of each interval exists in the set. For our purposes, intervals larger than a tritone should be inverted (5th becomes 4th, M6 becomes m3, etc.).
Write a short melody, using each of the five pitches. You may repeat pitches, but not once you've moved on to a new pitch ("A, A, D" is permissible, "A, D, A" is not).
I'll give you further instructions when you post your melody.
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