Beat

The beat is the pulsation of music. It is repeated constantly and it serves to compare the duration of figures and rests. The beat can be fast or slow and can get slower or faster. You will see it represented like this: .

If you silently put your ear close to someone’s heart, you can hear their heartbeat •

1 Recite and mark out the beat with percussion. Then listen and do it over the music.

Roosters on the farm say cock-a doodle (doodle) doo, neigh (neigh) moo (moo), cock-a doodle (doodle) doo.

Hands up, hands down, shake them all around.

Hands in, hands out, shake them all about.

Thirty days has September, April, June and November.

All the rest have thirty-one.

Twenty-eight and February’s done.

The beat indicates the duration of the figures. The crotchet lasts one beat.

2 Read the figures and interpret them by clapping on each beat, represented like this: .

Remember that we can write both the sound of music and silence.

3 Rhythmic dictation. Copy the musical stave in your notebook. Listen carefully to the dictation and write the corresponding figures.

Pitch tells us whether a sound is lower or higher. Between the low and high sounds, there may be other so-called middle sounds.

1 Observe how the size of the bell determines its pitch.

The pitch of the sounds is represented through musical notes.

Low-pitched sound Medium sound

High-pitched sound

2 Let’s check Melodic dictation. Listen carefully and order the sounds in your notebook.

1 Look, learn and play.

1 Carefully remove the bars FA and SI with both hands.

2 Explore by hitting the low, medium or high sounds with a mallet.

3 Accompany the movements of the person who acts as a puppet using alternate mallets.

We must maintain the correct posture when playing instruments for our physical well-being.

high sounds middle sounds low sounds

2 Read and complete in your notebook.

• The pitch of the sound is on the shorter bars.

• The sound ascends when it goes from the bars to the bars.

The beat can be organised into groups that are repeated regularly and constantly. It is organised in a rhythmic way. Each group of beats is called a measure. A duple metre has got two beats. On the stave, it is represented like this 2 or like this .

1 Read and observe that when a ball bounces, two beats arise, one stronger and one softer. Circle the strongest.

2 Practice the duple metre while singing this lullaby. Play the beats.

Body percussion exercises our body and improves our physical condition.

Twin- kle, twin- kle, lit- tle-s tar

How- I won- der what you are.

Up a- bove the world so high,

Like a dia- mond in the sky.