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The Beat: A Steady Pulse, Fast or Slow

  • Kindergarten
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 14 s
  • British Columbia
  • BCK-AR-03

A dot bounces along a line of time, ticking and leaving an evenly spaced mark on every beat, and a heartbeat and a clap-along show what a steady pulse feels like. The same trip is then made fast, with a running mouse and marks close together, and slow, with a walking elephant and marks far apart, ending on the recap that the beat is a steady pulse, fast or slow.

Concept: The beat: a steady pulse that can be fast or slow

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

What is the beat in music?

The beat is a steady pulse, like this.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What is the beat in music?

The beat is a steady pulse, like this.

This line shows time going by.

The dot bounces on every beat and leaves a mark.

Steady means the spaces are all the same.

Your heart has a steady beat too.

Clap along with the bouncing dot!

A beat can be fast, like a running mouse.

A beat can be slow, like a walking elephant.

A fast beat puts the marks close together.

A slow beat puts the marks far apart.

The beat is a steady pulse, fast or slow.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Kindergarten

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

Next: High or Low, Loud or Soft

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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