Lesson #4 :

Rhythm (stds 2,5,6/9.1, 9.3)

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 Time Signatures
• Describe the • Describe the
rhythmic contents of movement of music
each measure. in duple(2) or
• Function EXACTLY triple(3) rhythmic
like fractions. measure groupings.
– Rhythmic Numerator • Are simple or
– Rhythmic compound.
Denominator
 Time Signatures

Rhythmic Numerator

Rhythmic Denominator
 Time Signatures
Describe the rhythmic contents of each measure.

•Describe the movement of music in duple(2) or triple(3)

rhythmic measure groupings.
 THE TIME SIGNATURE
4 – There are 4 beats in a measure
4 – Every quarter note/rest receive 1 beat
4
4

Now… Try these exercises

4
4 .
.
3 – There are 3 beats in a measure
4 – Every quarter note/rest receive 1 beat

.
4

Now… Try these exercises

3
4 .
2 – There are 2 beats in a measure
4 – Every quarter note/rest receive 1 beat
2
4

Now… Try these exercises

2
4
.
6 – There are 6 beats in a measure
8 – Every eighth note/rest receive 1 beat
6

Now… Try these exercises

6
8
Create your own music by following the
given time signatures
3
4

2
4
 Time Signatures
Describe the rhythmic contents of each measure.

•Are simple or
compound.

•Describe the movement of music in duple(2) or triple(3)

rhythmic measure groupings.
 Time Signatures
Describe the rhythmic contents of each measure.

•Are simple or
compound.

•Describe the movement of music in duple(2) or triple(3)

rhythmic measure groupings.
 Rhythmic Symbols
• Are arranged in beat • Rests are “notes”
groupings according which must be
to the time “played”.
signature. • A tie can lengthen a
• Come in eight (8) rhythmic symbol
basic varieties (note) within or
called across the pulse of
“permutations”. the music.
 A Beat Grouping is..
 A unit of rhythmic symbols which is
grouped according to the pulse
denomination of the time signature. The
beat grouping can contain any variation
of subdivisions totaling the summative
length of the unit of pulse.
•i.e.---
4/4 = a quarter note beat grouping. Thus
the description of the contents of each measure
would be “4 quarter-note time”. Of course this
means literally that there are four beats in each
measure and that the quarter note gets one beat.
1 2 3 4

2 3 4
1
 ( 1
8
+ 2
16 )= 4
16 = 2
8 = 1
4

= = =
• Time signatures tell us exactly what is
going on rhythmically in each measure.
• To set up this thought process we say
the time signature as a fraction and add
the word “notes” to it (i.e.—“four quarter
note time”)

= 4
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Tools you will use to describe
and decipher (figure out)
rhythms:
Syllables : Beat Groupings :
1e+a Rhythmic symbols
Rhythmic permutations contained in one pulse.
have specific “names” or
syllable patterns. Can & do include rests.
Manurhythms :
Visual representations of The logic of fractions as
rhythms using your LEFT learned in math class.
hand.
Audiation : Rhythmic common
Hearing the music with denominators.
your internal ears (in your
head).
Beat Groupings, Rests & Ties

1 2 3 4
Beat Groupings, Rests & Ties

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

Beat Groupings, Rests & Ties

1 & 2 & 3 4 &

& 3
Count & Play
Count & Play
 What you need to do now:
• Practice! • Get a Manurhythm
• Study music you know sheet from the website
and apply the concepts and STUDY IT!
we just learned. • Use your new skills as
much as possible and
at every opportunity.