Year 11 - Music
Identifying rhythms
Listening: dictation
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to accurately identify and notate four-beat rhythms.
Key Notes
- Rhythmic dictation is the process of listening to a rhythm and writing it down using notation.
- Verbalisation, using words to represent different note values and patterns, is a useful strategy for rhythmic dictation.
- Words like 'ta' (crotchet) and 'ta di' (pair of quavers) can help to identify different note values.
- We then convert those words into their correct notation symbols.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rhythmic dictation: the process of listening to a rhythm and writing it down
- verbalise: to express with words (for example, verbalising a rhythm is turning a rhythm into words)
- note value: how long a note lasts for (for example, a crotchet has a note value of one beat)
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Longer note values (like minims) are impossible to verbalise, because the words sound the same as a crotchet.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Rhythmic dictation is the process of listening to a rhythm and writing it down using notation. Verbalisation, using words to represent different note values and patterns, is a useful strategy for rhythmic dictation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rhythmic dictation'
the process of listening to a rhythm and writing it down.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Longer note values (like minims) are impossible to verbalise, because the words sound the same as a crotchet. Correction: Longer note values are tricky to verbalise. A minim uses one syllable, just like a crotchet. The key is to make sure you count how many beats they last for - that will help you tell the difference between crotchets, minims and longer notes.
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