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Beat and Rhythm: The Steady Pulse and the Pattern on Top

  • Grade 1
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 6 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-AR-03

The beat is shown as eight evenly spaced dots on a line of time, with equal jumps between them, and children hear it as steady ticks they can clap along to. Long and short marks are then added above the beat as the rhythm; children hear one long sound and two short sounds, then the rhythm alone and on top of the beat, before a one-line recap.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

What are the beat and the rhythm in music?

This line shows time going by.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What are the beat and the rhythm in music?

This line shows time going by.

Most music has a beat, a steady pulse.

Each dot is one beat. Clap along!

The gaps between the beats are all the same.

Rhythm is a pattern of long and short sounds.

This long mark is a long sound.

These short marks are short sounds.

Now listen to the rhythm on its own.

Listen to the rhythm on top of the beat.

The beat is steady, and the rhythm goes on top.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Arts Education, Music: music: beat/pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics (music), form (music)BC1-AR-03

Next: Fast or Slow, Loud or Soft: Tempo and Dynamics

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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