"The most basic element of music."

2. Is the most basic element of music, because music
can do without the other elements but cannot
exist without rhythm. Music played, or sung brings
out a regular rhythmic pattern or pulsation which
we call beats. Beats are grouped in a measure that
contains units of four, three, or two beats called
a meter.

4. Grandfather’s clock

5. Did you move your arms regularly
while saying “tick-tock”?

6. Here are some objects commonly found around us.
Try to imagine the sound that they make, then
move regularly to their sound by clapping or
tapping six times.
The Church Bell-

7. Leaking Faucet
Tap!!!
Tap!!!
Tap!!!

8. So what are the Beats, and
what is Rhythm?
Beats are the regular movements that you did.
Music usually moves in a steady beat. We can
move in different ways on the beat of music. We
can clap, tap, walk, step, and do other movements
to feel the beat.
The movement that we do to the beat of music is
called rhythm.

9. Let’s all sing
“Hickory, Dickory Dock”…
Try to observe the sticks drawn below the words of this
song. The sticks show the beats. Clap your hands once
for each beat wile singing the song.
Hickory, dickory dock ――――
│ │ │ │
The mouse ran up the clock ――――
│ │ │ │
The clock struck “one”, the mouse ran down
│ │ │ │
Hickory, dickory dock. (tick tock)
│ │ │ │

10. Did you feel the beat
while clapping it?

11. Here is another familiar game
song.
London bridge is falling down,
│ │ │ │
Falling down, falling down.
│ │ │ │
London bridge is falling down,
│ │ │ │
My fair lady. ————
│ │ │ │

12. Again…
what is
the
meaning
of
rhythm?
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13. Rhythm is that movement through time,
of the arrangement of tones and
silences, of the order of long and short
notes, and of the accents of these tones
so that a regular movement is produced.

14. I hope you all
enjoyed…Thank you. 