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Rhythm: Patterning

Goal: To use grid rhythms in pattern by ear.

Out of Tempo

Beginning

  1. Teacher speaks, "Walk, run, run (= quarter eighth eighth)" 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.

Intermediate

  1. Teacher speaks two different grid patterns (walk run run, then run run walk) 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.

Advanced

  1. Teacher speaks three different grid patterns 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.

In Tempo

Sung numbers, letters, solfege, rhythm words using two-four, three-four, four-four meter.

Beginning

  1. Teacher sings a rhythm pattern in two time and repeats 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.

Intermediate

  1. Teacher sings two different grid patterns (walk run run, then run run walk) 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.

Advanced

  1. Teacher sings three different grid patterns 2, 3, or 4 times.
  2. Students repeat.