Music keeps a steady beat.
Drag a picture from the answer bank up to each sentence.
Check your answer by clicking on the Check button. Go to the next sentence by clicking on the blue arrow.
Click on each item to hear if it has a steady beat. Four items make a steady beat and go on the green shelf. Four different items do not make a steady beat and need to go on the orange shelf.
Your shelves should have these items.
For this activity you need to tap the steady beat for the four sound tracks.
Click the yellow play button to hear a track. Tap the steady beat on the red BEAT button. Move the gray track slider to go to a different track.
I want to make sure you know how to pronounce our music words. Look for audio pronunciations like this example.
“Compose” is the fancy music word for “write.”
So a composer is someone who writes music.
And the music that a composer writes is called a composition.
That means a composer composes compositions.
Now you get to be a composer and compose a composition. The rhythm builder below keeps a steady beat when it plays your composition.
Click on some white squares below to fill in the color. Then click the big yellow play button to hear your composition. Click the stop button to make changes to your composition.
If you want it to play faster or slower, click on the word Moderato in the lower left corner to choose a new speed. Largo is the slowest, and Presto is the fastest.
You tried it, so let’s check it!