The Notation Magnets can be used to manipulate and create music notation, helping students to understand how music is written and why it is written that way. Through hands-on activity students can engage with important aspects of music notation such as time signatures, key signatures, pitch, rhythm, and dynamics. As the proverb says, "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
The Notes and Rests set includes:
• Notes:
• 4 whole notes (semibreves)
• 6 half notes (minims) with stems attached
• 12 quarter notes (crotchets) with stems attached
• 2 eighth notes (quavers) with stems attached
• For building chords and eighth-note groupings:
• 4 half note (minim) note-heads for building chords
• 8 black note-heads for building chords, and for forming eighth and sixteenth (etc) note groupings, with the whiteboard pen being used to draw the stems and beams.
• 6 stems for
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