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Introducing Dotted Rhythms Lesson Plan

This music theory lesson introduces dotted rhythms to students. It reviews rhythm fundamentals and uses activities like clapping and a bouncy ball to demonstrate dotted rhythms. Students learn that a dotted note receives its original value plus half its value. They practice dotted rhythms through worksheets and exercises at different levels. The goal is for students to understand how dotted rhythms relate to fundamental rhythm concepts they previously learned.

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Introducing Dotted Rhythms Lesson Plan

This music theory lesson introduces dotted rhythms to students. It reviews rhythm fundamentals and uses activities like clapping and a bouncy ball to demonstrate dotted rhythms. Students learn that a dotted note receives its original value plus half its value. They practice dotted rhythms through worksheets and exercises at different levels. The goal is for students to understand how dotted rhythms relate to fundamental rhythm concepts they previously learned.

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Krystina Rodkey 9-12 Music Theory (42”);

Introducing Dotted Rhythms

National Standards
 MU:Re9.1.C.Ia Describe the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected
music and performances, demonstrating understanding of fundamentals of music theory
 MU:Cr2.1.C.Ib Identify and describe the development of sounds or short musical ideas in drafts
of music within simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, or binary).

Instructional Objectives
 Students will review fundamentals of rhythm
 Students will learn the concept of dotted rhythms
 Students will understand how dotted rhythms relate to the fundamentals of rhythm that they
previously learned

Materials
 Previous day’s activities to share with class
 Dotted rhythm worksheets/rhythm practice sheets
 Writing utensils
 Pink bouncy ball

Procedure
 Students will share the group activity they did yesterday with the rest of the class (5”)
 Review of rhythm fundamentals (5”)
 Bouncy ball/clapping activity (3”) (tell them to remember this activity)
o Give one student a bouncy ball, have them keep a steady beat
o With the students, started clapping a dotted quarter/8th note pattern (but don’t tell them
what they are doing) – tell them to clap after the second bounce
o Take the ball back and see if they can clap the rhythm on their own
 Verbal introduction of dotted rhythms
o Review rhythm tree with football terms (3”)
o Look at hierarchy of rhythm amounts (2”)
 Explain that note values get shorter as the tree progresses
o With these rhythm values, it is difficult have music in between the beats
 Yesterday we learned that the second 8th note is called the “and” of the beat, what
if I want to move notes in that space?
 Introduce concept of dotted notes
o Use “music math” (5”)
 Refer to bouncy ball activity, repeat it again
 Write rhythm on the board with a rest after the quarter note
o What if I wanted the first note sustained?
o Use words (fumble – relate to the idea that the note is stumbling
forward)
o This can’t be a rest because we’re talking during it now, so what
is it?
 Adding a dot adds one half of the notes original value
 Dotted quarter = quarter + eighth, and so on
 Keep going with music math
 Worksheets (10”)
 Rhythm practice (<10”)
 If in band/chorus – level 3
 New to rhythm – level 1
 New to rhythm but want a challenge – level 2
Assessment
 Are students able to understand the concept of dotted rhythms and how they relate to the
fundamentals of rhythm?

Reflection

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