LPM Connections 4 Rhythm and Counting

 This post includes activities that correlate with Let's Play Music Connections 4 Lesson on Rhythm and Counting.

Rhythm Practice Videos

Choose a video to Count, Tap Clap, or Stamp along with each rhythm sample in the videos.

Remember to count aloud using the smallest note pattern found in each example. 

Eighths: 1 & 2 &, etc.

Sixteenths: 1 e & a, 2 e & a, etc.

Musical Minds: Quarter, Half, Eighth Notes and Rests.

Musical Minds: Dotted Quarters and Single Eighth Notes

Musical Minds: 16th Notes

Musical Minds: 16th and Dotted Quarters

Musical Minds: Multi Level Eighths, Dotted Quarters and Sixteenths

Choose your level of difficulty. (Red=Easy, Green=Moderate, Blue=Advanced)

Eighth Note Rhythm Games

Tone Savvy Rhythm Dictation Practice

Click the link to practice rhythm dictation. You can adjust the difficulty by choosing from different types of notes (quarter, half, whole, eighth).

Theta Rhythm Puzzles

Music Tech Teacher Rhythm Sound Match

Click the rhythm pattern that you hear. It may help to echo the rhythm bug language that you hear  (quarter=bug, 2eighths=beetle).

Print the “Rhythm Trick or Treat” Game. Choose a card. Earn a “treat” or do the “trick” by clapping/counting the rhythm.

Improvisation

Activity 1:

Improvise a melody using the rhythm pattern on the “trick or treat” cards with notes from the scale of your choice.

Activity 2:

Borrow the rhythms and harmony from "No One's in the House" and change up the melody notes using notes from the C Scale to create your own improvisation. Hint: Choose a note from the left-hand chord to start each beat.

Activity 3:

Watch Create First Agree to Disagree Duet and Solo. Then create melodies in your right hand that include eighth notes and quarter notes while your L.H. plays the steady quarter note beat.

Supplementary Music

Piano Safari Rote Piece Half Step Song (Part 4)

Watch Part 4 Bug Slug (Bug Slug then climbing up, Bug Slug, then climb back down, etc.)

Listen to Five Four, Three, Two, One… Blast Off! (starting at 9:08). As  Jerald Simon (the composer) plays it the 2nd time, count out loud, and say the ACCENTED counts louder. (1 and 2 AND 3 and 4 AND).

Listen to Gold Star Audio Playlist Songs as you follow along in the music and count and clap the melody rhythms.  Choose a Song You’d Like to Learn Next Week

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