TEACHING WITHOUT

TALKING
Grade: Middle School Subject: Music
Topic: Rhythm Lesson: Syncopation

LESSON FOCUS AND GOALS:

This lesson is focused on syncopated rhythms and how to

properly count them
The goals of this lesson is to teach students what a
syncopated rhythm is and how to perform it correctly

MATERIALS NEEDED: LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Slides Presentation Understand syncopation

Zoom to record lesson Identify syncopation
Perform simple syncopated
rhythms correctly

STRUCTURE / ACTIVITY:

The slides presentation will start with explaining strong

and weak beats
I will explain syncopation
I will go through examples of syncopation and I will have
a metronome playing
The student will test their skills by figuring out which
example has syncopation and which one does not