Year 3 - Music
Reading stick notation on rhythm grids
Compose and Create: notating and performing using rhythm grids
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Unit Summary
This unit explores composing rhythmic patterns through the use of rhythm grids. Pupils are inspired by exciting percussive performances and work in groups to create and perform their own challenging rhythmic patterns.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to read and perform from body percussion and stick notation rhythm grids.
Key Notes
- Music is organised into the feeling of beats, giving it, for example, a strong-weak-weak feel if in 3-time.
- Stick notation can be used on rhythm grids to notate rhythms.
- Notes of different durations are combined to create rhythms.
- Takadi and Ta-dimi both have three sounds, but in different duration orders.
Vocabulary To Learn
- beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
- rhythm: the pattern of sounds and silences that we play and sing
- body percussion: to make a percussive musical sound with the body
- 2-time, 3-time, 4-time, 5-time: the organisation and feel of the beats, beginning with a strong beat
- duration: the length of a sound or silence
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We always count to four in music.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Music is organised into the feeling of beats, giving it, for example, a strong-weak-weak feel if in 3-time. Stick notation can be used on rhythm grids to notate rhythms.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'beat'
the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: We always count to four in music. Correction: Music can be organised into any number of beats. The first beat is always the strongest.
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