Unit 2, Part 2 Catch Up Plan

Complete this Quizziz to receive credit for lessons 2.2.1, 2.2.2, and 2.2.3! If you have not completed 2.3.1 make sure to also complete that assessment on Edio!

Once you complete this Quizziz, let me know in the Edio chat and I will excuse those 3 lessons!

A drum is a percussion instrument with a circle-shaped head that is struck with the hand or with a stick or mallet.

Continent: North America

Continent: Drum America

Continent: Europe

Continent: Asia

Continent: Africa

• Call and Response: The performance of a musical phrase followed by a unique but similar music phrase

• Drum: A percussion instrument with a circle-shaped head that is struck with the hands or with a stick or mallet

• Echo: The performance of a musical phrase followed by an identical musical phrase

• Improvisation: Music is actively made up during a performance. 

• Technique: A specific way of performing

• World Drumming: The study of drumming techniques from around the world

A specific way of performing.

• Echo: the performance of a musical phrase followed by the same phrase repeated.

• Call and Response: the performance of a musical phrase followed by a unique but similar musical phrase

• Improvisation: music is actively made up during a performance. There are no specific music notes to follow along with.

Posture and hand position are important when playing any instrument. 

• Sit tall on the edge of your chair with your feet flat on the floor.

• Hold the shell of the drum in your non-dominant hand.

• Gently strike the drum with the fingertips of your hand or with your mallet.

A specific way of performing.

• Echo: the performance of a musical phrase followed by the same phrase repeated.

• Call and Response: the performance of a musical phrase followed by a unique but similar musical phrase

• Improvisation: music is actively made up during a performance. There are no specific music notes to follow along with.

• Barline: a vertical line that marks where each measure ends and the next begins

• Dotted Quarter Note:       a note with a value equal to 1.5 beats

• Ostinato: a repeated musical phrase. Can be melodic and/or rhythmic

Performing Rhythmic Ostinto

​Rhythm 1

​Rhythm 2

​Rhythm 3

Compose: to write music to be performed by yourself or others.

​On the next page, you will have the opportunity to compose a 4 beat rhythm pattern.

Your teacher will model the next two slides for you and then turn on student-led instruction so that you can complete the activity at your own pace.

1. Compose a 4 beat rhythm pattern.
2. Write this pattern in your music workbook (or a piece of paper)
3. Perform the 4 beat pattern 4 times to make it an ostinato.

Complete this Quizziz to receive credit for lessons 2.2.1, 2.2.2, and 2.2.3! If you have not completed 2.3.1 make sure to also complete that assessment on Edio!

Once you complete this Quizziz, let me know in the Edio chat and I will excuse those 3 lessons!