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Fast or Slow, Loud or Soft: Tempo and Dynamics

  • Grade 1
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 12 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-AR-04

A drum plays while a line of time fills with a dot for each beat, close together when the beat is fast and far apart when it is slow, and big when it is loud and small when it is soft. Children hear each example and see it drawn, and learn that tempo means how fast or slow music is and dynamics means how loud or soft it is.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

How can music change? Let's listen to a drum.

This line is time. We draw a dot for each beat.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can music change? Let's listen to a drum.

This line is time. We draw a dot for each beat.

First, the drum plays fast. Listen!

Fast beats make dots close together.

Now the drum plays slow. Listen!

Slow beats make dots far apart.

Tempo means how fast or slow the music is.

Next, the drum plays loud. Listen!

Now the drum plays soft. Listen!

Loud beats make big dots. Soft beats make small dots.

Dynamics means how loud or soft the music is.

Tempo is fast or slow. Dynamics is loud or soft.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Arts Education, Music: music: beat/pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics (music), form (music)BC1-AR-04

Previous: Beat and Rhythm: The Steady Pulse and the Pattern on TopNext: Drawing Sounds: Long, Short, Loud and Soft

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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