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Don't Clap This One Back

Fruit Canon

Pachelbel's Canon 

listen to this track - use also for Task C

What is syncopation?

Music

Singing and playing syncopated rhythms

Layering syncopated rhythms to accompany a song

Syncopated rhythms in jazz

Creating and rehearsing a syncopated performance - building a tight ensemble

Syncopation performance and reflection

This unit introduces pupils to the term syncopation through adding syncopated rhythms to songs. Pupils learn how to feel the offbeats through movement and experience how straight rhythms and syncopated rhythms feel different. Syncopated rhythm patterns form an accompaniment to a range of songs.

Singing for performance: syncopation in songs

True or false? Offbeats are weak beats or notes between the beats.

Backbeat syncopation is where we emphasise the {{}} and 4th beat of a 4-beat bar.

In 3-time, beat {{}} is the strongest beat.

{{}} is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.

the pattern of sounds and silences that we pay or sing

the organisation and feel of the beats, beginning with a strong beat

a repeating musical idea created from a rhythmic pattern

a short, memorable musical idea, often repeated or varied throughout a piece

a measure of musical time with a set number of beats

the speed of the music - how fast or slow the music is played

the pattern of sounds and silences that we play and sing

playing or showing the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock

Match the following musical terms and definitions.

What is syncopation?

Lesson outcome