Hello, and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
I hope that you already learned how to play "Frog in the Middle".
How are you doing on playing that by the way?
If you learned that in our last lesson, I hope you have been practicing that and having
fun playing it.
Let's come on down to the heartbeat mat,
and I'd like you to touch each heartbeat with me while we sing "Frog in the Middle".
On your screen, just touch each beat with my hand as we sing.
Frog in the Middle, Frog in the sea. Frog in the Middle, can't catch me!
What did you notice about singing "Frog in the Middle" and touching the steady beat?
Did you notice that there were some beats that didn't even have a sound or a word in
them?
If you did, that's great.
There's a picture for that. In music, we call it a rest when there is no sound in a beat.
I'm going to do the first page of heartbeats again, and I want to see if you can find where
this rest belongs.
Remember, a rest means silence during one beat.
Here we go, find the beat where there is no sound.
Frog in the Middle, Frog in the Sea. Did you hear the beat with no sound?
Touch the beat with no sound in it.
If you're touching this beat, you are correct. We call this a quarter rest.
Now, let's figure out the other beats.
I'm going to do the first row, and would you figure out which beat has two sounds in it?
[Singing]
Point to the beat that had two sounds. Listen one more time.
[Singing]
Point to the beat with two sounds. If you're point to this one, you're correct.
We call a beat with two sounds in it two eighth notes.
Now how many sounds did you hear in these other three beats?
That's right, there's one sound in each beat,
and when there's one sound in a beat we call that a quarter note.
So I'm going to fill quarter notes across this row.
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Now, we can say this rhythm like this.
TA TI-TI TA TA.
Will you point to each beat and say that with me now?
TA TI-TI TA TA. Great job. Now let's figure out the next row.
I'll touch the beats and you listen and see where you hear TA's and where you hear TI-TI's.
[Singing]
What did you hear?
Here's the correct answer.
TA TI-TI TA rest.
Now let's go on down to the next page and figure out what comes next.
Here's the rest of "Frog in the Middle".
[Singing]
Point to the heartbeat that had two sounds.
If you're pointing to this one, you're correct.
The other beats what did they have?
One sound each is the correct answer, so we'll fill those with quarter notes.
Now this last row is all that's left. Let's listen to how it goes.
I'll start with the row we just wrote.
[Singing]
What did you notice about this row?
Did you hear the rest? Point to the beat where you heard a rest.
That's right, it's the last beat. There was no sound in that beat so we'll add a quarter
rest.
What about the other beats? Did you hear any eighth notes?
There are no eighth notes this time,
so we need all quarter notes because there is only one sound in every beat.
Now we've written the entire rhythm to "Frog in the Middle".
Let's try singing the rhythm words to "Frog in the Middle" while you touch each beat on
your screen.
I'll do it along with you. Here we go.
TA TI-TI TA TA, TA TI-TI TA rest.
TA TI-TI TA TA, TA TA TA rest.
Great work. Now, it's time for the magic to happen again.
Look at what happened to the board.
Some of the rhythms are missing, and I'm going to need your help to put them back together.
So what I'm going to do is say the rhythm and you tell me what rhythm belongs in there
TA or TI-TI.
[Singing]
What belongs right here? If you said TA you are correct.
Try the next row.
[Singing]
What belongs in this beat? If you said a quarter rest, or a rest, you are correct.
Next row. [Singing]
What belongs in this beat? If you said TI-TI or two eighth notes, you are correct.
[Singing]
What belongs in this beat? There was one sound, so if you said a quarter note, or TA, you
are correct.
Great job helping me with these rhythms today.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson.
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