Keep Time Through a Rest

Supplied materials

• Paper and a pencil, or typed notes. Draw boxes and label them tap or rest.
• Example: Each box lasts one beat: ['tap', 'rest', 'tap', 'tap']. How many boxes ask for a tap? Choices: (A) 2 taps (B) 3 taps (C) 4 taps (D) 5 taps.
• Try this: Each box lasts one beat: ['rest', 'tap', 'rest', 'tap']. How many boxes ask for a tap? Choices: (A) 1 tap (B) 2 taps (C) 3 taps (D) 4 taps.

Learn the idea

A rest is a quiet time in a sound plan. Each box still lasts one beat, whether it says tap or rest. A rest keeps its place in the plan.

Look at the example. Tap only boxes labeled tap: these are positions [1, 3, 4]. Rest boxes keep time silently rather than removing a beat. There are 3 taps across four total beats.

Count every box, including the quiet boxes. The number of taps can be different from the number of beats.

1. Look at the four boxes in the example. Find the tap boxes and the rest box.
2. Explain why three tap boxes make three taps even though the plan lasts four beats.
3. Try the check question and the three practice questions. Then read the feedback.
4. Make four equal boxes containing exactly two taps and two rests; number all four boxes.
5. Check your work. The grid has four beat positions, two sound instructions and two silent instructions.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

Try a new example: Each box lasts one beat: ['tap', 'rest', 'tap', 'rest']. How many boxes ask for a tap? Choices: (A) 1 tap (B) 2 taps (C) 3 taps (D) 4 taps. Answer: 2 taps. Tap only boxes labeled tap: these are positions [1, 3]. Rest boxes keep time silently rather than removing a beat. There are 2 taps across four total beats. Make your own: Make four equal boxes containing exactly two taps and two rests; number all four boxes. Check your work: The grid has four beat positions, two sound instructions and two silent instructions.

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