Year 3 - Music
Rhythm and beat 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 Ta and Ta-di rhythms using a rhythm grid.
Key Notes
- A rhythm grid is a visual grid system to represent and perform rhythmic patterns.
- Rhythm grids can be displayed in many ways, you just need to know the code in order to be able to play them.
- Visual symbols such as colours, shapes or numbers can represent musical information.
- To play together in an ensemble, you need to have a good sense of pulse, to know when it is your turn to play.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rhythm grid: a visual grid system to represent and perform rhythmic patterns
- 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 and silences that we play and sing
- notation: a way of writing music down
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Rhythm and pulse are the same.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
A rhythm grid is a visual grid system to represent and perform rhythmic patterns. Rhythm grids can be displayed in many ways, you just need to know the code in order to be able to play them.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rhythm grid'
a visual grid system to represent and perform rhythmic patterns.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Rhythm and pulse are the same. Correction: Pulse is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music as opposed to rhythm which is the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.
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