The document discusses musical rhythm and time signatures. It defines rhythm as a pattern of long and short sounds and silences. It then provides examples of one beat and two beat rhythms, including quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth note pairs, and beamed sixteenth notes. Finally, it discusses time signatures, explaining that they indicate how beats are grouped in a measure and includes examples of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures.

1. Beat: the steady pulse of the music
Rhythm: a pattern of long and short sounds and silences
- “the way the words go”
One Beat Rhythms
These rhythms usually last for one steady beat
Name of How we say What it looks How many
Rhythm it like sounds or
silences
Quarter Note ta one sound
lasting one beat
Quarter Rest shh one silence lasting
one beat
Eighth Note Pair titi two sounds lasting
one beat

2. Beamed Sixteenth tikatika four sounds
Notes lasting one beat

3. Two Beat Rhythms
These rhythms or groups of rhythms
usually last two beats
Name of How we say What it looks How many
Rhythm it like sounds or
silences
Half note ta-ah one long sound
lasting two beats
Half rest shh-hh one long rest
lasting two beats
Eighth note syncopa three unequal
Quarter note sounds lasting two
Eighth note beats
Dotted quarter tam-ti two unequal sounds
Eighth lasting two beats
Tied quarter ta-ah one long sound
notes lasting two beats

5. TIME SIGNATURES
The way beats of music are grouped to make them
easier to read, sing, and play
Time Another way to How many beats in How to
Signature write it a measure? conduct?
2 2 Two Down
4 Up
3 3 Three Down
4 Out
Up
Floor
4 4 Four Door
4 Window
Ceiling
Barline: the up and down lines in a piece of music that divide the
measures
Measure: the space between two barlines, group of rhythms
Double Barline: the end of the song

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