Practice hearing and showing the beat, rhythm, and tempo in simple music patterns.
Read each problem with a teacher or helper. Clap, tap, or say the pattern out loud. Show your answer in the space provided.
Clap, tap, and move with steady sounds
Music - Grade K-1
- 1
Tap your lap four times at a steady beat. Count out loud: 1, 2, 3, 4. What did you do to show the beat?
- 2
Clap this rhythm: clap, clap, rest, clap. Draw an X for each clap and a blank box for the rest.
- 3
A song is very fast. Circle the word that tells its tempo: slow or fast.
- 4
March in place to a steady beat. Is marching usually good for a steady beat or a silly mixed-up beat?
- 5
Say the words pizza pie. Clap the rhythm of the words. How many claps did you use?
- 6
Look at the pattern: stomp, clap, stomp, clap. What comes next if the pattern keeps going?
- 7
Your teacher plays a drum slowly. Should you move slowly or quickly to match the tempo?
- 8
Clap this beat while counting: 1, 2, 3, 4. Are the beats even or uneven?
- 9
Say the words ice cream cone. Clap the rhythm of the words. How many claps did you use?
- 10
Circle the picture that shows a fast tempo: a turtle walking or a rabbit hopping.
- 11
Make this rhythm with body sounds: pat, pat, clap, pat. Write the body sound that happens on beat 3.
- 12
Listen to a song or have a helper sing one. Tap the beat with one finger. Did your finger tap the rhythm of the words or the steady beat?
- 13
Draw four hearts in a row. Point to each heart as you say 1, 2, 3, 4. What do the hearts show?
- 14
A lullaby is a soft bedtime song. Is a lullaby usually slow or fast?
- 15
Clap a steady beat, then clap a rhythm with some long and short sounds. Tell one way the beat and rhythm are different.