How to cultivate children's sense of rhythm

Music is a basic part of the spiritual life of human society, and children's music education is an important means to promote its harmonious development and healthy growth. Orff, a famous contemporary German children's music educator, thinks: "The first element of music creation is rhythm. Rhythm is the life of music and the source of its vitality. " Therefore, it is particularly important to cultivate children's sense of rhythm in order to improve their musical quality. To cultivate children's sense of rhythm is to let children experience and feel the emotion of rhythm, feel the beauty of rhythm and accurately reproduce the rhythm in music art. However, it is not easy to cultivate and train children's sense of rhythm. Children's poor sense of rhythm is due to their age characteristics, and the rhythm of brain and body movements cannot be coordinated with each other. Therefore, teachers should cultivate children step by step through some simple and interesting methods. First, stimulate children's interest in rhythmic activities. Interest is the best teacher. If children are not interested in an activity, it is difficult for us to let them master this ability. Therefore, the first thing we have to do is to stimulate children's interest in rhythm. There are several specific methods: 1. Find the rhythm in daily life, so as to stimulate children's interest in rhythm. Rhythm exists widely in the life around us. Therefore, it is an effective way for children to perceive, understand and be interested in rhythm from real life. For example, children like the sounds of animals, such as chickens, roosters, kittens and so on. The sounds of nature: rain, blowing, running water, etc. The sound of vehicles: the sound of trains "blare-blare-blare", the sound of cars "blare-blare" and so on. These sounds are very vivid rhythms. Under the guidance of the teacher, children can easily find these voices. On the premise of fun, children are interested in imitating these rhythms, which are expressed by talking, clapping their hands and using musical instruments. Although children don't know "rhythm" themselves, they have been able to feel and understand rhythm in imitation, and have a strong interest in rhythm, which has laid a good foundation for further cultivating the sense of rhythm. 2, gamification means and methods to cultivate children's sense of rhythm. Facts have proved that children in early childhood are most interested in games, so integrating children's rhythm into games is bound to stimulate children's interest and the effect will naturally be better. Even the ordinary rhythm spectrum can be expressed with interesting plots and actions to better attract children's interest. For example, if we pay attention to the rhythm of the top 16 and the bottom 8 (the rhythm of ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× 3. To cultivate a sense of rhythm, it is necessary to be musical, not just to let children mechanically beat the beat, but to guide children to feel the beauty of rhythm. The most prominent example is the weak law of three beats, which can let children fully feel the ups and downs of three beats and let them get an aesthetic experience. Second, after children have a strong interest in rhythm, teachers can cultivate children's sense of rhythm by combining the following methods: 1, combining rhythm practice with poetry reading, and exploring the law of language rhythm by using games, so that children can master certain rhythm patterns. For example, we can use children's songs to master the rhythm, such as the song "Clap your hands for happiness": If you feel happy | Clap your hands (×? × ×? × × ×)。 2. Feel the music and learn the rhythm through body movements. Body movements are the physiological basis for feeling the sense of music rhythm and play an extremely important role in cultivating children's sense of rhythm. Clapping hands, patting legs, akimbo, pedaling, shaking, knocking, walking, running and jumping are all actions that children like and are easy to master. Therefore, in the process of learning rhythm, children can use body movements to express rhythm. This kind of performance is free and flexible, and the teacher only needs to guide it. Such as pony running, tortoise crawling, windy and rainy, driving a train, flying, riding a bike, boating and so on. Can be expressed by children with their hands, feet and body. For example, learning the rhythm of ×× O|×××O in "The Roots of Flowers of Chai Lu" allows children to learn the rhythm by hand, and at the same time, they can use their brains to come up with various actions such as patting their shoulders, patting their legs, stepping on their feet and swinging their arms. Regular and rhythmic body movements can greatly promote the development of children's imagination and creativity. 3. Learn rhythm with vivid rhythm chart. For children, the simple rhythm chart (××××××) lacks vividness and vividness, so it is empty and boring, and children are not easy to understand and have no interest in learning. Using vivid graphics to express rhythm can not only arouse children's interest and concentrate, but also make them easy to understand and learn rhythm better. If an apple represents a beat and half an apple represents a half beat, children can remember it once and never forget it. For example, in the rhythm music "Heavy Rain and Light Rain", the strong part is represented by big raindrops, and the weak part is represented by small raindrops. This kind of image map can help children quickly grasp the different rhythms of strength and weakness, and express them through body movements or musical instruments. Another example is: in rhythm music, shoemaker, saw and hammer are used to represent different musical attributes, while saw or hammer is used to represent a beat, and half saw or hammer is used to represent a half beat. Children can not only clearly understand the essence of music, but also choose appropriate instruments to play according to the tips of atlas. It can be seen that atlas can fully mobilize children's initiative and enthusiasm for learning. 4. Play small games with different rhythms. Games are the most interesting activities for children. According to this feature, teachers can use some lively activities to let children learn rhythm. For example, in the rhythm music "Little Blacksmith", teachers can help children understand and master the rhythm in the form of maps, and they can also help children learn the rhythm in the form of games, including Tik Tok O who saws wood and O who colors nails. In this way, with the help of these game activities, children are interested in activities and pay attention, and children will take the initiative to use their brains in the process of playing, so as to capture the rhythm and master the rhythm under the conscious guidance of teachers. 5. Distinguish the rhythm types of melody and phrase. For example, listening to music to find rhythm can train the agility of thinking, enhance memory and develop children's intentional attention. When distinguishing rhythm patterns, we should pay attention to the obvious contrast of rhythm patterns. 6, the use of percussion instruments, the use of musical instruments to train children's rhythm, the intuitive performance of musical instruments to stimulate children's interest and enthusiasm for learning. Children are active and their hands and feet are always idle. Combining this feature, often asking them to play musical instruments can not only deepen children's grasp of rhythm, but also stimulate their interest and enthusiasm in music learning, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. To this end, we provide all kinds of percussion instruments for children in the music corner, so that children can practice using them. At first, let children beat and play to let them know that different musical instruments can make different sounds. Then, guide the children to know that different tapping methods of musical instruments can produce different sound effects, such as tapping the center, side and edge with a drum milling hammer, which make different sounds. After children become interested in musical instruments, we will encourage and guide them to beat their familiar song rhythms with musical instruments, and they can also create rhythms freely. The most prominent example is the weak law of three beats, which allows children to fully feel the ups and downs of three beats and thus gain an aesthetic experience. Through the operation and application of small musical instruments, we can understand the acoustic effects produced by different percussion methods of each instrument. It not only cultivates the sense of rhythm, but also improves the children's musical quality and ability. 7. Pay attention to the cultivation of music rhythm in daily life. The teaching of each subject is closely related and permeates each other. The combination of rhythm and other subjects can help children better understand, express and remember rhythm. For example, the combination of rhythm and art can help children understand rhythm by drawing apples. A quarter is an apple, and an eighth is half an apple. Children have a better understanding of the duration of each beat. Rhythm teaching and language can also be effectively combined, and rhythmic recitation can not only consolidate the rhythm but also help to remember the content. For example, in language activities, when teaching songs, we should not only demonstrate to recite lyrics rhythmically to arouse children's interest, but also let children learn to recite songs rhythmically. With the addition of rhythm, children will read fluently, strengthen content memory and learn with ease. Therefore, only by radiating boring rhythm exercises to other disciplines can we gain a broad sense of rhythm. Teachers can consciously cultivate children's sense of rhythm when exercising in the morning or at noon. For example, there will be a period of preparation time before doing exercises, mainly stepping, and the teacher will use the password of "1211",which seems to be familiar with simple passwords and is also a rhythm, and children will learn this rhythm unconsciously; When the teacher needs to concentrate on the children who can move freely, the teacher often uses tambourines or clapping hands to attract the children's attention, and often uses the beat rhythm of ××××.