Piano Adventures 3B: Rhythm Puzzles and Sixteenth Notes

 This post includes lesson plans for "Sixteenth Notes" in Piano Adventures 3B.

Music Sample

Tap the rhythm as you listen to Rhythm Puzzle. Write the "rhythm bug" words above the measures in your music. (Bug? Beetle? Grasshopper? Caterpillar? Butterfly?).

Rhythm

Clap or tap along with the rhythms in the Musical Minds: 16th Notes video.

Play a game below to review rhythms including Sixteenth Notes/Rests 
 
  Music Tech Teacher Rhythm Terms Scramble
  Music Tech Teacher See Sawing Note Values 
  Phil Tulga Rhythm Counter (Choose rhythms including sixteenth notes and rest to fill the measures. 
  Phil Tulga Fraction Pies 

Transposition

You can transpose a piece by thinking of the scale notes, intervals, whole steps and half steps, or you can experiment by playing by ear until you find the note that sounds right.

Watch the transposing tutorial if needed to help you transpose "Rhythm Puzzle" to a minor and e minor.

Supplementary Music

Spinning Song by Ellmenreich - Michael Aaron Book 3/ Piano Pronto Movement 4 (simpler)

Sonatina in C by Frank Lynes - Piano Pronto Movement 4

Arabesque by Fredrich Burgmuller - Hal Leonard Piano 5

Innocence by Fredrich Burgmuller - Hal Leonard Piano 5

Fantasia by Georg Phillipp Telemann - Hal Leonard Piano 5

Allegretto by Albert Biehl - Keith Snell Piano Repertoire Romantic 20th Century 3

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