Learning Sequence Activities / Edwin E. Gordon / Rhythm Register Book 2

Learning Sequence Activities should be the core of every curriculum that teaches music fundamentals�instrumental or choral, elementary school or college. Simply put, these activities are a research-based, carefully-sequenced way to teach the basics, and to teach toward the individual differences of your students. They take up no more than five or ten minutes at the beginning of a class period. Designed by Edwin E. Gordon, the activities broaden the tonal and rhythm vocabularies of students. More importantly, by working with tonal and rhythm patterns�the building blocks of all music�students learn to audiate or to give meaning to music. Is a song in triple meter or duple? Is it in major or minor? How does the chord structure progress? Improvise a harmony....