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BEAT, RHYTHM & TEMPO: May 26-29 Ferndale K-2 Elementary Music: Lesson 4 Paper Supplement

Directions: If you have a computer and online access, you may wish to do the online lesson at this link: https://sway.office.com/dxFi913u4CmJfxiM?ref=Link&loc=mysways Complete the Exit Ticket at the end, and your answers will be recorded online for your music teacher to see.

If you would rather use this paper version of the lesson, or if it works better for your family, we hope to provide you with the same information as best we can. (We really miss interacting with your children and would much rather see them in person!) Please follow the lesson below. Thank you for working so hard with your children!

Student Outcomes: Why is steady beat important? How is beat different from rhythm? What does tempo mean?

Lesson Review and New Concepts of the Week:

We already learned that pitch is the highness or lowness of one single sound. Melody is a series of pitches put together in a row, and harmony happens when two or more pitches are played at the same time.

In this lesson we will learn about beat, rhythm, and tempo.

You probably already know that beat is steady like a heartbeat. Each beat takes up the same amount of time and is kind of like a space where the sounds live. There can be one or more sounds in a beat space. There can even be silence in a beat space. The mixed up long and short sounds and silences in the beats are the rhythm. Rhythm matches the words in a song. When you listen to music, the beat is the part that makes you want to tap your toes and get up and move, but the rhythm is the part that makes the music more interesting.

Without a rhythm, you don't have a song, you just have a plain beat. Without a beat, you have a rhythm that sounds messy. You need both beat and rhythm to make a song sound just right. They are like BFF's! They need each other!

Tempo is how fast or slow the beat of the music is. Music with a fast beat has a fast tempo and music with a slow beat has a slow tempo.

Songs for Singing and Making Music

Find a light. It could be a flashlight, laser pin, headlamp, cell phone, or toy that lights up. Go into a dark room like a bathroom or closet. Turn off the main lights and point your light at the floor, move it slowly up the wall to the ceiling and back down. Now follow the light with your voice. While singing “oo”, slide your voice from low to high as you move the light up the wall. Slide your voice from high to low as you move the light down the wall. Now move the light around in different ways always following the light with your voice.

Think about a song that you learned in music class this year or put on your favorite song. Keep the beat on your lap while you sing. If you want to get creative, find different ways to keep the beat. (Try marching, clapping, snapping, or any other movement that works for you.)

Music K-2 Show the beat and rhythm using the first chart:

1. Read the Apple Tree poem below out loud. 2. Read the poem while tapping the beat on your lap. 3. Each heart represents a beat. Read the poem and tap each heart as you read the words. 4. The words below each heart make up the rhythm. Read the poem and clap the words.

Write the rhythm on the second chart: 1. The rhythm is now shown in apples and apple halves. Two apple halves show two sounds per beat. One

whole apple means one sound per beat. 2. Write ♫above the two apple halves. We call this rhythm note ta-di. 3. Write ♩ above the apple whole. We call this rhythm note ta.

Music K-2 Tempo Activity: Remember, tempo is the speed of the beats. Practice saying the Apple Tree poem out loud while walking slowly. This speed is called andante. Now say the poem while marching. This tempo is moderato (medium). Lastly, run while saying the poem. This tempo is allegro.

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SINGING, MOVING, & CONCEPT OF THE WEEK ACTIVITIES

DIRECTIONS: Take a short quiz. Circle the correct answer. We hoped you liked the paper music lesson! 1. Tempo is...

To be angry How fast or slow the beat is The rhythm and melody

2. Beat and rhythm work well together because… They are the same thing Rhythm is better without a beat Beat makes you want to tap your toe while rhythm makes music more interesting

3. Songs can sound messy and do not make sense if the ___________________is missing. Steady Beat Music Teacher Violin

4. The long and short sounds in music are called... The steady beat The rhythm The tempo