Music education is an important part of early childhood education and the basis for cultivating children's good aesthetic taste. Music is a basic component of the spiritual life of human society, and rhythm is the life of music, the source of music vitality, and the first element of music composition. Cultivating children's sense of rhythm enables them to experience the emotions of rhythm in music and art, feel the beauty of rhythm, and have the ability to accurately reproduce rhythm. However, due to their age characteristics, young children's brain and body movement rhythms cannot coordinate with each other to feel the rhythm of music, so they have a poor sense of rhythm.

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Cultivate children's sense of music rhythm

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1. The significance of cultivating music rhythm

Some people say that there is no real learning content in kindergarten, and cultivating children's interests is the first priority. Interest is the best teacher. If a child has no interest in a certain activity, it will be difficult for the child to master this ability. You can also look for rhythms in daily life to stimulate young children's interest in rhythm. The concept of rhythm is relatively abstract and difficult for young children to understand, but young children are sensitive to rhythm. Rhythm exists in our surrounding life. Therefore, in order for young children to understand rhythm and be interested in rhythm, they must start from real life and explore rhythm. Find the rhythm. Such as the sound of rain, the barking of cats and dogs, the sound of drums, the sound of horse hooves, the sound of walking, the thump of batting, etc. During the activity, I told the children that these regular sounds are called rhythm and asked the children to find the rhythm by themselves. The children were very interested in this and soon cited various rhythms: the rumble of the train, the bang The sound of gunshots, the ticking of the alarm clock, etc. Whenever children discover a new rhythmic sound, they feel particularly excited and often proudly say: I heard this. As a result, my interest in actively searching for various rhythms in the surrounding life has become stronger. I composed these sounds into various rhythmic patterns and expressed them in the form of clapping and tapping objects, allowing children to listen, feel and understand repeatedly, so that they can develop rhythm awareness. Although young children themselves do not understand "rhythm", they can already feel and understand rhythm through imitation, and have developed a strong interest in rhythm. This lays a good foundation for further cultivating the sense of rhythm

2. The basis for cultivating the sense of rhythm in music - hearing

Music is an auditory art, and various musical activities are inseparable from hearing. , Therefore, music listening ability is the prerequisite and foundation for the formation of various musical abilities. Many musical abilities come from hearing, such as music perception ability, music memory ability, music comprehension ability, music aesthetic ability, singing ability, appreciation ability, music expression ability and sense of rhythm, etc. are all inevitably related to hearing, so we must learn With the ability to explore rhythm through listening, children can learn proactively with this ability. We live in a world of sound that is full of wonderful sounds: the crisp chirping of birds; the honking of car horns; the melodious ringing of bells, etc. Letting children listen carefully to these sounds can not only give them a beautiful enjoyment and experience, but more importantly, children learn to listen, and then replace these sounds with music, allowing children to freely do various actions while listening to music, and personally experience various Various rhythms, slowly children will find that these sounds are constantly changing and have certain regularity, and they will experience happiness from them, and thus have a more detailed, comprehensive and profound understanding of rhythm.

3. Methods for cultivating a sense of musical rhythm - body movements

Use body movements to express rhythm, that is, children can use their own understanding of the rhythm with or without music accompaniment. The feelings and understanding are expressed through beautiful movements. The movements are performed by the children themselves according to their own experience of music, which is relatively free and flexible, rather than being taught one by one by the teacher. However, teachers must guide, inspire, and gradually help children express rhythm with their own movements.

For example, when training | x x x x | Notes are clapping with hands, eighth notes are replaced with feet, and this rhythm pattern is transformed into various forms for children to practice, such as: | x x x x | xx x x x || ; | x x x x | x xx x x || ; x x x x | xx x x x ||etc. The children's interest is very high. Many children can look at the rhythm score and use their hands and feet to play the melody. In addition, when designing activities, I pay attention to the diversity of activity methods to make the children's mouths, bodies and minds move. , to ensure that children’s enthusiasm for learning is stimulated and maintained. To get children's bodies moving, you can ask them to create movements for songs, sing in games, or use body movements to accompany songs. Songs with specific, action-oriented or narrative lyrics can subtly stimulate young children's imagination. thereby creating movement for the song. For example, the songs "Little Duck", "Clatter of Shoes", etc.

Some songs are highly game-oriented and allow children to sing while playing. For example, with the songs "Where's the Chicken?" and "Blowing Bubbles," the teacher and children play hide-and-seek together, blow bubbles in a circle, and play while playing. Sing, what a joy! Use the body to accompany the song, that is, guide the child to use body movements such as clapping hands and legs to create the rhythm, or to fill in the prelude and interlude, or to highlight the emphasis of the phrase. For example, in the song "Tricycle", clapping and stamping are added at the interlude or in measures 2, 4, and 8. Or sound accompaniment: jingle bell, jingle bell, haha, haha, or repeat the words at the end of the sentence "run fast", "old lady", "so weird", to make the singing more humorous and interesting, and let the children sing with laughter. During the improvisational performance process, children experience the joy of creation and success, and gain a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence.

4. Cultivate children's rhythm sensitivity and integrate rhythm into songs

In singing activities, there are various singing forms, which can be generally divided into eight types: Solo singing , unison singing, lead singing and unison singing, pick-up singing, duet singing, rotation singing, chorus, performance singing, etc.

How to integrate rhythm and singing? Singing is a way for people to express their emotions