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Rhythm and Rest (30 sight reading rhythms w/ quarter and half rests)
By Jason Litt
This resource Rhythm and Rest is terrific for your kids as an introduction to quarter and half rests or just as a warmup for whichever instrument you may be practicing (recorder, orff, handbells, voice, etc!)
30 slides with 3 different levels
Quarter Rests and Half Note Rests with Quarter Notes
Adding in Eighth Notes
Six beat patterns
Twos Company - Part I (Duet Rhythmic Warmups with mp3s)
By Jason Litt
In "Twos Company" students will see two 4-beat rhythmic examples on the powerpoint and will split amongs their peers as a duet and read the rhythms down, with instruments, vocalizing, or however you please!
Students can be the "1" part or the "2" part or you can call individuals to sight read, or split it up any way you wish.
There are 25 different examples with inflections, style, and background grooves to keep you going (at different tempi if you'd like)
In this resource, it encompasses quarter notes, quarter rests, half notes, dynamics (forte and piano), and repeat signs into a canon exercise (to be repeated 4 times)
You can play these on boomwhackers, classroom percussion, Orff, recorders, or whatever you'd like.
Part II coming soon with extended rhythms and more!