This week we will be learning about different types of musical rhythms. We will learn that music has fast sounds, slow sounds, long sounds, and short sounds and also silences. We will also be experimenting with fast and slow tempos and loud and soft dynmamics while using classroom instruments.

Vocabulary

Tempo - how fast or slow

F - the symbol for loud

P- the symbol for soft

Rest- a silence in music

Quarter note- 1 sound to a beat

Eighth notes- 2 sounds to a beat