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Book 5 Teacher Guide - Rhythm Reading exercises for middle and high school music classrooms

This booklet is full of great rhythm exercises to challenge your young musicians and can be applied in the choral, general music, band and orchestral classrooms. All 10 exercises have play-along videos that can be found for free on YouTube @musictheorymadesimple.

Each worksheet comes with a new rhythmic challenge.

Worksheet 41 - 3/4 time signature. Quarter, 8th and dotted rhythms and rests.
Worksheet 42 - 3.4 time signature. Quarter, 8th and dotted rhythms and rests.
Worksheet 43 - 4/4 time signature. Quarter, 8th and rests.
Worksheet 44 - 4/4 time signature. Quarter, 8th and rests.
Worksheet 45 - 6.8 time signature. Dotted quarter, 8th and 16 notes
Worksheet 46 - 6/8 time signature. Dotted quarter, 8th and 16 notes
Worksheet 47 - 2/4 time signature. Triplets, 8 and 16 notes
Worksheet 48 - 2/4 time signature. Triplets, 8th, and 16 notes
Worksheet 49 - 4/4 time signature. Half notes, quarter, 8th and 16th notes
Worksheet 50 - 4/4 time signature. Half notes, quarter, 8th and 16th notes

For each worksheet there are 12 lines. Each of the 12 rhythm patterns consist of a 3 bar pattern and then a bar for resting and breathing. This gives students a chance to look ahead at the next line.

The booklet also comes with suggestions of uses and how to vary the tasks in the classroom setting. The tasks can be used as warm up activities, a starting point for composing, homework exercises and rhythm reading assessments.

There are play-along recordings of each worksheet on my Youtube channel - Music Theory Made Simple that can be used in the classroom.