Rhythm and Pulse

Understanding what rhythm and pulse is and how it is used in music

What will we learn today?

You will be able to:

• Understand what rhythm is.
• Understand what pulse is.
• Understand how rhythm is used in music.
• Be able to use body percussion along with rhythm.

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Starter

• Let’s recap what we learnt last lesson.
• Match the correct phrase to the note

Notation is a series of symbols and markings that tell musicians how to perform a piece of music.

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What is rhythm and pulse?

Pulse is a beat that is regular. The beats are all the same length!

Rhythm is the pattern of sounds of different lengths.

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There is also the tempo! Tempo is how fast or slow a pulse is. Fast tempos can sound fun or energetic. slow tempos can sound sad or relaxed.

Can you keep a steady beat?

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Let’s try with a first strong beat

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Let’s add some words!

Our words will have the rhythm to our song!

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Call

Response

Lets try the whole song!

What we have learned today

• Understood what Rhythm is.
• Understood how rhythm is used in music.
• Able to use body percussion along with rhythm�

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