1. Rhythms in Everyday Life

2. Rhythms can be sounded out using anything
Rhythms can be sounded out using anything. You can use your body – mouth, hands, fingers, or feet – to capture a rhythm. You can also use found instruments – ordinary objects like your pencil, keys, backpack, or desktop.
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3. STOMP
-One Musical Group famous for its use of found instruments is STOMP. This modern dance troupe combines exciting choreography with rhythms created from everyday objects.
-Their goal is to invite people to listen to the world in a different way and hear music where maybe they didn’t think there was music before.
Activity: As you watch the video, identify the meter of the piece performed by STOMP.
How many different ways do they create sounds?
Activity: Miss Sperotto will divide the class into 4 groups. Each group will have a different rhythm that will be taught to them with a different noise they need to make. Perform with all groups playing their parts at the same time. 1. X 2. x 3. 4.

4. Improvisation
-Music invites us to make new combinations of sound. We may find ourselves humming or whistling our own tune or tapping a rhythm that we make up. This kind of spontaneous musical invention is called improvisation. The improviser is simultaneously a composer and a performer.
-Improvisers don’t usually do whatever they want. They keep what they do in certain boundaries to keep the piece together so it makes sense.
-Improvisation is an art with many techniques and is a way of making music a form of direct self-expression.
-Scientists believe that music improvisation is among the highest forms of human thinking.
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