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Music Tempo Changes
Hey, I need to find out how to explain to kids the differences between 3/4 tempo, 3/6 tempo, 5/4 tempo, 5/6 tempo and 5/8 tempo. I'm a tap teacher and want to explain differences in rhythm but want to be well informed on the subject!!
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You could try explaining that in 3/4 time, you count to three and in 5/6 time, you count to five, etc. You might want to tell them that, for instance, 4/4 means 4 beats per measure, and the quarter note gets the beat. Maybe not the second part, but you might want to get a posterboard and write the different time signatures and how you count in that time signature. I'm not a dancer, but I'm a musician so I hope I helped!
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OK first of all, there isn't any such time signatures as 3/6 and 5/6. But I can help you with the others!
Explain to the students that any time signature that ends in a 4 (e.g 3/4) is in crotchets (beats that last 1 beat), so for example 3/4 means that there is 3 crotchets in a bar.
Any time signature that ends in an 8 is in quavers (beats that last half a beat), so for example 5/8 (which, by the way, is hardly ever used in music) has 5 quavers in a bar.
Then maybe play them examples of music in different times, and the rest is up to you, after all you're the teacher!
Hope I helped!
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hi. my teacher taught us this way... but she figured it out by snapping her fingers on the beat of her tempo. and after a while we all understood the differences between the tempos. i can try to find out more for ya if ya like. ok well i hope this will help.
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there is no such thing as 3/6, 5/6 etc... we don't designate sixth notes... Some composers have tried experimentation with what they call "artificial meter" but it is sorta weird and doesn't really exist in the schema of western music.
4/4 time is your standard four feel. 2/2 is called "cut time" and is 4/4 with emphasis on the half-notes - instead of the quarter note getting a count of one, the half-note gets a one count.
3/4 time is often associated with the waltz, often faster 3/4 songs will be in "one feel" where you just emphasize the downbeat and nothing further.
5/8 feel is five beats per measure, an eighth note gets one full count. Often 5/8 time is in 2-3 feel. 6/8 time is more "normal"... and can be in 3-3 feel or 2-2-2 feel (2-2-2 feel is nearly the same as 3/4 time, but feels twice as fast).
12/8 timeis also called shuffle beat. This is actually 4/4 time in full triplet feel. Blues shuffles fall under this metering.
7/8 exists, and some composers really love usering alternating 4/4 - 7/8 metering to give a staggered feel... being that you teach dance, anything odd metered (7/8, 5/8) is going to be awkward as hell to dance to, thus you probably aren't going run into to it too much unless you tend to teach more avante garde material.
Just remember - when looking at a meter for a song - the top designates how many beats are in a measure. 3/4 is three beats per measure, 2/2 is two beats per, etc.
The bottom number indicates what sort of note gets a full count - thus in 4/4, the quarter-note gets a beat - so a full measure consists of 4 quarter notes. In 6/8, the eighth note gets a beat, so a full measure here consists of six eighth notes. Yes, you can have something as wacky as 11/16 time, where you have eleven beats per measure, and the sixteenth note get a beat.
As always, feel free to contact me directly about any more specific questions you might have.
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how old are the kids?
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