Creating Rhythms using Quarter Notes, Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.

I have created this simple Keynote where students are able to create their own 4 beat rhythm pattern by dragging and dropping their chosen rhythm into the boxes.

There are 4 images of each note stacked on top of each other. So 4 quarter notes stacked, 4 eighth notes stacked, and 4 quarter rests stacked. I also have 27 pages of the exact same thing in the keynote. My plan is to AirPlay to my AppleTV and have students come up one at a time to make a rhythm, then the class plays their rhythm together. Then I will go to the next page for a blank slate, and a new kid comes up, etc. Or you could take it down to one page and send that to the students' iPads for them to do on their own.

Enjoy!

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4 replies

January 24, 2025

I love that you are providing students with the opportunity for their rhythm to be displayed on the AppleTV and then performed by their peers! You could collaborate with the students all on 1 Keynote and assign each of them a slide to put their rhythm on, so that way you can save time from having to have students come up to your iPad.

January 24, 2025

Oh that's a marvelous idea as well! Thank you!!

February 09, 2025

What a wonderful resource! My students really enjoy this.

February 10, 2025

This is such a great and well-designed activity, easily adapted for different meters and rhythms. I remember doing activities such as a kid with felt boards in my music classes. Love the modern update. It was a great idea to stack multiple copies on top of each other for easy touch control on iPad. If you had time and a purpose, it would be nice to have a slide of additional note and rest values (half, whole, dotted, etc.) that could be adapted into new and varied exercises quickly by anyone using this great resource. I'll be recommending your resource to our future music educators.

Thank you for sharing and I hope you'll continue sharing your work on the forum. As a musician myself, I get so excited when I see posts about music education. 😁🎵

I bet your young composers are so proud to have their composition performed by their peers. 👏

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