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20 bars of beginner rhythm in 4/4, using whole, half, and quarter notes. Students write the counting.

Level

Time signatures

Pick one or more. Each line uses one of them.

Note values

Rests

Bars

5 lines

20

Difficulty

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Rhythm path

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Teaching stage

Whole, half, and quarter notes with simple rests in bar-filling figures.

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Meters: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4

Select one or more. Each staff line uses a single meter.

Note values

Select the values students have learned. Only these will appear.

Rests

Include rests and choose how often they appear.

Rhythm options

Some options stay off until the teaching stage introduces them.

Students write the counting under each beat.

Ties

Available after the Ties stage.

Dotted notes

Available after the Eighth subdivision stage.

Compound counting system

How to count compound meters (6/8, 9/8, 12/8)

Triplets

Available after the Triplets stage.

Quarter

Eighth

Sixteenth

Bars

5 lines

20

Staff density

How many bars share each staff line. Fewer bars per line give the notes more room.

Measures per line

Auto follows the notation: four bars, or three when the rhythm is dense.

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