Music Maths and Metre (Simple Time Signatures Featuring syncopa)

This appealing worksheet is designed to practise:

  • 2/4 metre (time signature)
  • 3/4 metre (time signature)
  • 4/4 metre (time signature)

Rhythms featured are:

  • syncopa (quaver, crotchet, quaver / eighth note, quarter note, eighth note)
  • tika tika (semiquavers / sixteenth notes)
  • ti-tika (quaver, semiquavers / eight note, sixteenth notes)
  • tika-ti
  • ta (crotchet / quarter note)
  • ti-ti (quavers / eighth note)
  • sa (crotchet rest / quarter note rest)
  • too (minim / half note)
  • too-oo-oo (dotted minim / dotted half note)

Question 1 - students add up rhythms.

Question 2 - students add missing bar lines in a range of time signatures.

Question 3 - students complete bars of rhythms in a range of time signatures.

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Kodály Analysis:

Music Maths and Metre (Simple Time Signatures Featuring syncopa) Theme: Games:
Partner: Form: Song Type:
Scale: CSP: Age: Middle Primary - Lower Secondary
Tones: Rhythm: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;  
Melodic:
Prac:

 

Origin:
Source: MySongFile.com

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