Term 2 - Lessons 10 & 11 - 20th and 24th February 2017

Most of what we looked at today was revision (dotted rhythms, time signatures etc) and there are already plenty of resources on this blog for you to revise further.


Here is a reminder of the difference between simple and compound time signatures.


We used this sheet to practise reading in compound time signatures.
(please have a go at this)

And this explains how triplets work.

(this is just revision)

Here are the basic rules of beaming.
(please read this)

Here are some guidelines for beaming in compound time.
(we didn't get on to this in the lesson, please read if you're interested)

Here are some simple exercises to practise beaming.
(we worked on these exercises in the lesson - please complete for homework).



We began to look at text setting by putting short phrases of text with appropriate rhythms.

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