Rhythm is a regular or repeated patterns of beats. The beats maybe long or short.
Ways of Creating Rhythm
You can create rhythm by use of: -
• Body movements
• Clapping
• Tapping
• Beating drums
• Stamping
• Snapping
Guide learners to sing a familiar song.
‘The wheels on the bus’
Guide learners to sing as you clap following the beats of the song, you can also tap or beat a drum to accompany the song.
Then guide learners to clap, tap or drum as you sing, the created beats create very enjoyable rhythm that will automatically make the body to start moving along.
Now learners can sing the song, The wheels on the bus go round and round’ in groups as they clap, tap or drum as they dance along the rhythm. The teacher to record and take videos.
Individually let learners sing and creat rhythm of their own. They can add beats like clapping, drumming, tapping, matching, or walking.
Learners to talk about each learners play.
Music is the combination of sounds and rhythms that when they are performed together, they are pleasing to the ear.
Creating/ Composing is the process of coming up with new music.
Many ideas maybe communicated through compositions.
Examples of these ideas are.
Messages of patriotism
Communication of pertinent and contemporary issues.
Life skills
Rhythm. Is a regular or repeated pattern of beats. The beats maybe long or short.
Rhythmic patterns- A rhythmic phrase or idea that appears more than twice and forming a pattern.
Take the learners through the activities of identifying animals that make rhythmic patterns.
Example 1
Show learners a picture of an elephant.
The elephant makes even and slow steps while moving. Guide learners in tapping or clapping the rhythm made by these steps. They could do this while sounding the following counts.
ONE, TWO, ONE, TWO, ONE, TWO, ONE, TWO.
These steady counts make rhythmic patterns. Guide learners in identifying other animals that make rhythmic patterns.
Example 2
A clock makes even and moderate beats. Guide learners to vocalizing these beats. They could do
this using the following syllables.
The clock ticks tik tok,tik tok,tik tok
These steady counts make rhythmic patterns.
Guide learners in identifying other objects that make rhythmic patterns.
The learners through clapping/ tapping rhythms of animal names. They could also vocalize the rhythms at the same time, individually or in groups
Example
Za cha riah ze bra. Hip po ka nga roo. Tall gi raffe
Rhythmic patterns
Learners to create rhythmic patterns through clapping and tapping.
Guide Learners through the activities of clapping syllables in names. The names include tea, coffee, soda and mango juice.
As the Learners clap or vocalize, they should be guided to adhere to speech rhythm.
For example, rhythms for karatasi and kawangware are short than those of twiga and miti
In groups, let Learners create own rhythms using body percussions.
Improvising rhythms
Rhythm. A regular or repeated pattern of beats. The beats may be long or short.
Rhythm Pattern. A rhythm is a phrase of ideas that appears more than once and forming a pattern.
Rests: Moments or sections of silent in a song / music
Improvisation It refers to coming up with rhythms and perform using these without prior preparation or rehearsal.
Rhythmic accompaniment to songs
Accompaniment is instrumentation that supports the main performance. In this case, rhythmic accompaniment is to sing using body percussion.
Take the learner through the activities of creating own rhythms by tapping/ clapping to accompany songs and stories.
Guide Learners to accompany songs with created rhythmic accompaniment.
The accompaniment may be done by clapping/ tapping vocalising or using other body percussions.
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