Welcome to HCA Joyful Music
Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers
There is a difference between rhythm and beat in music. In our music classes, we work on both. We work on keeping a steady beat while we play or sing a song. We practice feeling macro and micro beats (or big and little beats as I sometimes say to the children) in various time signatures, duple, triple, and asymmetric. We isolate rhythm patterns separately from the songs. Feeling the beat and keeping a steady beat is a developmental music skill that we work on week to week. Check out our Nursery 3 class with the chant, Bee, Bee, Bumblebee, in this video here.. You will notice that we play with the beat, switching from macro and micro.
