Identify Time Signatures

In this identify time signatures learning exercise, student determine the correct meter signature for each of 8 lines of music when they identify the correct answers by circling them.

Sixth graders listen to various songs. In this musical properties lesson, 6th graders work in groups to identify musical selections, practice tapping the beat, review time signatures, and identify the meter of different songs.

To demonstrate their understanding of simple and compound time signatures, young musicians complete a chart by drawing quarter or dotted quarter notes equal in value to the note groups shown.

Young scholars investigate number values by participating in a math game. In this fractions lesson, students identify how fractions are used in daily life, how they are expressed in music time signatures and how to express them in...

In this music learning exercise, students identify specific tips for composing a song. They use strophic form where each verse has the same melody. Students also select a chord sequence and use cadences at the end of each phrase and...

Fifth graders explore performing arts by composing a music piece. In this melody notation lesson, 5th graders identify the first five notes in the diatonic scale which they utilize to create a melody over 8 measures. Students perform...

Understanding time signatures and rhythm counting are two very important parts of playing an instrument well. Here are three basic lessons rolled into one that prompt upper graders to play their instruments with care. They'll practice...

Students identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They also identify the down-beat and begin to explain conducting patterns.

Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...

Pupils demonstrate the ability to determine the name of any major key signature. After a lecture/demo, students utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to gain practice identifying key signatures.