A Strategy To Teach Beat And Rhythm

Goals

Students will aurally and visually understand that music has beat (the heartbeat of the music) and rhythm ("the way the words go").

Students will learn songs and rhymes  from the repertoire list below and be able to sing them:

• in tune, without the aid of the teacher
• while keeping a steady beat in a variety of ways
• while keeping  the rhythm (i.e. keeping the “words of the song”).

Students will be able to identify and perform beat and rhythm:

• in known and unknown repertoire
• in a variety of tempi

Repertoire

A Charm To Cure Hiccups		; ;
A strategy for teaching Staff		;
Apple Tree		; ;
Bee Bee Bumble Bee		; ;
Blue Bells		; ;
Bobby Shafto		; ;
Bounce High		; ;
Bumble Bee		; ;
Bye-lo		; ;
Bye-lo (Song Sight Reading)		; ;
Clap Me Your Name		; ; ; ; ;
Clap Your Hands		; ;
Closet Key		; ;
Cobbler Cobbler		; ;
Come Let's Dance		; ; ;
Cuckoo Where Are You		; ;
Eeny Meeny Miny Mo		; ;
Engine Engine		; ;
Fishy Fishy		; ;
Frosty Weather		; ;
Good Night Sleep Tight		; ;
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush		; ; ;
Hey Hey Look At Me		; ;
Hickory Dickory Dock		; ; ; ;
Humpty Dumpty		; ; ;
Jack and Jill		; ;
Johnny Works With One Hammer		; ; ;
Kangaroo		; ;
Kreely Kranky		; ;
Little Bo Peep		; ; ;
Little Jack Horner		; ; ; ; ;
Little Sally Waters		; ;
Lucy Locket		; ;
Oh Well You Walk		; ; ;
On a Log		; ;
One Two Tie My Shoe		; ;
One, Two, Three, Four		; ;
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat		; ; ;
Queen Queen Caroline		; ;
Rain Rain		; ;
Right Feet Left Feet		; ;
Ring Around the Rosy		; ; ;
See A Pin And Pick It Up		; ;
See Saw		; ;
Snail Snail		; ;
Sometimes The Music Goes Fast		; ; ; ; ; ;
Starlight		; ;
This Is The Way		; ; ; ;
Three Blind Mice		; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Two Four Six Eight		; ;
We Are Dancing		; ;

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