beat and rhythm.pptx

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1. Beat & Rhythm What is the difference?

2. The Beat is steady, like your heart. Sometimes it is fast, sometimes it is slow, but it is always steady!

3. Beat in music is the center of everything—if notes are words, rhythm is letters that form and structure each word and each sentence. A beat is the basic unit of time in music, and when repeated in a regular pattern it creates a pulse. Essentially, rhythm is the language that musicians and artists use to play together. It tells the audience when to clap and dancers when to dance too!

4. Music is usually divided into bars. Each bar is divided with bar lines. A time signature tells us how many BEATS are in each bar!

5. Rhythm in all aspects of life is a regularly recurring pattern over time. Many things in our lives have rhythm. In music, rhythm is specifically a regular repetition or grouping of  beats , and specifically how unaccented beats are grouped around accented beats. The term rhythm is closely related to the term beat, as well as  pulse  and  meter . To fully understand rhythm and the definition above, we need to unpack what each of these three terms mean.

6. Try to clap along with this rhyme, but only clap where you see a bee! There are 2 BEATS in each bar.

7. Rhythm fits within the beat and represents the sounds and silences in the music. These can be both long and short We can find rhythm in words – try to clap the following words: Lamp Har- ry -pot- ter Choc- ol -ate Par-snip Av- oc -ad- oe

8. Try to clap the rhythm along with the rhyme. Larger shoes should be held for a slightly longer amount of time.

9. Beat vs Rhythm

10. Why not try clap out the beat and then the rhythm to the following well known tunes?

11. Summing Up Rhythm is to time what melody and harmony is to pitch or frequency; it divides the abstract concept of time into discrete and measurable segments.       It is often the least thought of major aspect of music, but it is just as important. 

12. THANK YOU!