Rhythm test

Revise what you have learnt about rhythm in this unit

Time listening

Ear training-types of time.

Simple duple, triple and quadruple meter

Duple time

Turkish march. W.A. Mozart

This old man

Early one morning

Triple time

Oranges and lemons

Lavender´s blue

Pirates of the caribbean

Quadruple time

London bridge is falling down

Merrily we roll along

The muffin man

Time

Time signature types. The basics.

Here you have some exercises to practise time signatures

Time signature

Music Basics: Notes and Rhythm. Lesson 1: Note Values, Duration, and Time Signatures.

Teaching music with rhythmic clapping

Note values

Don't forget note values. Remember that their names change depending on American or British English.

 British English on the right,  American English on the left

Note-values tree

Music Basics: Notes and Rhythm. Lesson 1: Note Values, Duration, and Time Signatures.

Music Theory: Note Names, Rests & Dotted Notes

Beat and tempo

You know that beat is the internal pulse of a piece of music.

What is beat?

Tempo is the speed of the beat.

Beat and tempo

Tempo

Tempo markings

Types of tempo

Rhythm

Learning rhythm is not difficult. Pay careful attention to the following videos, they can help you to understand the basics of rhythm.

Basics of rhythm

What is beat?

What is the difference between Rhythm and beat?

Music Basics: Notes and Rhythm. Lesson 1: Note Values, Duration, and Time Signatures.

Music Theory: Note Names, Rests & Dotted Notes

Teaching music with rhythmic clapping

Surfing the net... Rhythm

Practice your rhythmic skills

• See Sawing Note Values
• How is Your Timing?
• Listening to Rhythm Patterns Quiz