Lesson · Grade 3 · Arts Education
Beat, Rhythm and Tempo
- Grade 3
- Arts Education
- 1 min 21 s
- British Columbia
- BC3-AR-03
Dots evenly spaced along a line of time show the beat as a steady pulse, with pink long and short bars above it for the rhythm. You hear a tick on each beat and a note for each bar. The same beat is then played fast, with the dots close together, and slow, with the dots far apart, to show that tempo is the speed of the beat.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
What are the beat, the rhythm and the tempo in music?
This line shows time going by.
Transcript
What the lesson says
What are the beat, the rhythm and the tempo in music?
This line shows time going by.
The beat is the steady pulse in music.
Each dot is one beat. Clap along!
The beats are evenly spaced, so the beat is steady.
Rhythm is a pattern of long and short sounds.
A long bar is a long sound, and a short bar is a short sound.
Now hear the rhythm and the beat together.
Tempo is how fast the beat goes.
A fast tempo puts the beats close together.
A slow tempo puts the beats far apart.
The beat is the steady pulse, rhythm is long and short sounds, and tempo is the speed of the beat.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 3
Arts Education, Music: music: beat/pulse, duration, rhythm (music), tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics (music), form textureBC3-AR-03
Next: Pitch, Dynamics and Timbre: How High, How Loud, What Kind of Sound
- British Columbia, Grade 4
Arts Education, Music: music: beat/pulse, duration, rhythm (music), tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics (music), form (music), textureBC4-AR-03
Next: Pitch, Dynamics and Timbre: How High, How Loud, What Kind of Sound
This lesson is also listed in Grade 4.
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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