Second Steps - Reading Rhythms

  3. Reading Rhythms 

• Learn the vocabulary of blue jello words/hand signs to help understand the shapes of notes and rests
• Learn to think, feel and see rhythm as note groups (like words) rather than individual notes or rests
• Learn how to count and identify beats in a rhythmic pattern
• Learn to relate blue jello rhythm symbols to actual notes and rests
• Learn the mathematical relationship of the various notes and rests 
• Take rhythmic dictation 
• Read and/or perform rhythmic patterns by signing or clapping or with students’ instrument
• Learn time signatures and be introduced to conducting patterns