The Steady Beat

Goes On
 Music has a beat that sounds
like the steady ticking of a clock
or the regular beating of our
heart. This beat moves regularly
in a song that we sing and in
music that we listen to.
Steady Beat
• The song that we sang has
a beat that sounds
regularly like the regular
ticking of a clock.
• Also, we feel the steady
beats when we listen to
and sing songs and when
we move and dance with
the music.
 TICK TOCK
Steady beats
may be shown
through stick
notation just
like this:

Tick tock tick tock

Hands are moving in the clock

Tick tock tick tock

Now it’s ringing one o’ clock.

•Steady beats in
music may be felt
in groups of two’s,
three’s and fours.
These are
determined by
feeling the strong
and weak beats in
the song.
Look at the table below. The thick lines
represent the strong beats while the thin
lines represent the weak beats.

Twos Strong-weak

Threes Strong-weak-
weak

Strong-weak-
Fours weak-weak