Workshops on notes and counting beats

First, the teacher explained what notes are and how they are divided.

Students could practise and actually see the devision.

The division

Then together with the teacher students practised counting the

notes with the use of scales.

After the scales task, the time came for more practical activities with musical

instruments.

The teacher prepared a special board with

some popular melodies from

France, The Czech Republic and

Finland.

Each song had a different metre. 4/4 France3/4 The Czech Rep.2/4 Finland

Students got divided into three groups according to colours on the music board. These were: red (back row), blue (middle

row) and green (front row).

The teacher played the theme on the piano and the groups followed the notes on the board. The red

group had the main rythm and the other two played additional rythms.

Children also sang a song about notes, rythms and metres. The song is rather

difficult to play as the metres in the stanza (3/4) and in the chorus (4/4) change.

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