Year 1 - Music
Reading rhythms from pictures
Compose and Create: exploring and performing rhythm patterns
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils use minibeast names to rehearse and compose simple four beat rhythms by clapping, chanting and performing on untuned percussion. They use minibeast images to order and repeat these rhythms. Backing tracks are used to aid rehearsal and performance of their rhythmic compositions.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use pictures to help you play a rhythm accurately.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We play instruments on the beat and to the rhythm as we sing.
- We know music can be shared by listening or by writing it down.
- We can use pictures and words to help us play rhythms accurately.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
- beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
- rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing. We play instruments on the beat and to the rhythm as we sing.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pulse'
the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: Pulse is the underlying feeling of uniformed beats - it is the heartbeat of the music. When organised into metres, we then feel it as beats e.g. counting 1,2,3 1,2,3. Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences of differing durations.
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