Drumming Together

Learn about drumming together: experience syncopation and offbeat accents

🎵 Stage Brief #6

The beat in music can be grouped in twos or threes.

🎯 Your mission

Find what made this music change everything.

⚡ The twist

Every musician you love stole from someone else first.

What you'll learn

The beat in music can be grouped in twos or threes. March music has beats in twos (LEFT-right-LEFT-right). A waltz has beats in threes (ONE-two-three).

Remember

1Experience syncopation and offbeat accents
2Connect beat to dance and movement

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🎧 What instruments are NOT here that we'd hear today?

🎼 Notes on the staff

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🌟 Artist spotlight

🌟 Louis Armstrong invented modern jazz singing by accident — he dropped his lyric sheet on stage.

🤯 Mind = blown

🤯 Beethoven's 9th symphony is the song the European Union plays for itself.

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How many lines does a music staff have?

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What instrument has strings and is played with a bow?

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What is a rest in music?

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