Steady Beat
Steady Beat Songs / Activities
- A la lata al latero
- A My Name is Alice
- A Qua Qua
- Abalone
- Acka Backa
- Akkad bakkad bambe bo
- Allee Allee O
- Angel Band
- Animal Fair
- Ants Go Marching
- Backe backe Kuchen
- Ball Passing Game
- Bate bate chocolate
- Bounce High Bounce Low
- Buy a Penny Ginger
- Can You Walk on Tiptoe
- Cat’s Got the Measles
- Cherry Tree
- Chick-a-Li-Lee-O
- Clap Your Hands
- Clock
- Clocks of Rondaine
- Cluck Old Hen
- Cobbler Cobbler
- Cripple Creek
- Diddle Diddle Dumpling
- Do Lord
- Doctor Foster
- Double Double This This
- Down By the Greenwood Sidey-o
- Down Down Baby
- Down to the Baker’s Shop
- Drunken Sailor
- Early in the Morning
- Engine Engine
- Everybody’s Welcome
- Father Abraham
- Fiddle-De-Dee
- Fire Down Below
- Flea Fly Flo
- Follow the Leader
- Frog in the Meadow
- Fudge Fudge
- Gallop
- Game of Sevens
- Go Down Emmanuel Road
- Good Morning
- Grandma Moses
- Great Big Clocks
- Hail, Hail! The Gang’s All Here!
- Hello My Name is Joe (Jo)
- Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
- Hey Concentration
- Hey Hey Look at Me
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Hullabaloo Belay
- I Can Walk With Two Feet
- I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
- I’s the B’y
- If You’re Happy and You Know It
- It Rained a Mist
- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
- Johnny Works with One Hammer
- Just From the Kitchen
- Kapulu Kane
- Kreuztanz
- La tía Mónica
- Land of the Silver Birch
- Le joli tambour
- Listen Listen Here I Come
- Little Bunny Foo Foo
- Little Drummer
- Little Red Caboose
- Little Red Engine
- Little Red Wagon
- Miss Maggie
- Muffin Man
- Mulberry Bush
- My Big Bass Drum
- My Dog Rags
- Na nakusa nazu na
- Naass naass Blieder
- O Lebisibiyo
- Okki Tokki Unga
- Old Man Daisy
- Old Sister Phoebe
- Old Zion’s Children
- Oliver Twist
- Omochio tsukimasho
- One Two Three Aleerie
- One Two Three O’Leary
- Peep Squirrel
- Poor Dog Bright
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Rattlin’ Bog
- Rig a Jig Jig
- Roll That Brown Jug Down to Town
- Rooms for Rent
- Sailor Sailor on the Sea
- Sandy Land
- Santy Maloney
- Sarasponda
- Scions du bois
- Shake Them ‘Simmons Down
- Si me dan pasteles
- Sorida
- Thank You for this Chris’mus
- There’s a Brown Girl in the Ring
- This is the House that Jack Built
- This Old Hammer
- Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue
- Tick-Tock
- To Stop the Train
- Toodala
- Trot Old Joe
- Uncle Jessie
- Walk and Stop
- Welcome Song
- Wellerman
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Witches’ Night
- Yankee Doodle
Steady Beat Visuals & Assessment
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Steady Beat Other Worksheets / Assessments
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Beat or No Beat
Beat or No Beat Lesson Ideas
- Play keyboard examples of songs with an obvious steady beat (i.e. march) and long, sustained tones for examples with “no beat.”
- Or… play recordings while students circle “beat” or “no beat.”
For songs with an obvious steady beat, you could use:
- Bizet: Les Toreadors from Carmen Suite
- Joplin: “Maple Leaf Rag”
- Kodály: “Viennese Musical Clock” from Háry János Suite
- Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld: Can Can
- Price: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: III. Juba Dance
- Sousa: Semper Fidelis
- Still: Afro-American Symphony – III. Animato
- Strauss: Radetzky March
- Strauss: Tritsch Tratsch Polka
For songs with no obvious steady beat, you could use:
- Anonymous: Chant of the Templars – Salve Regina
- Eno: Music for Airports (start at 7:20)
- Feldman: Rohtko Chapel 1
- MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
- Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no. 5 (start at 2:00)
- Roach: Structures From Silence
- Skempton: Lento
- Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
- Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92, “I”
Sound Effects for…
Steady Beat
Beat or Not Beat Visuals & Assessment
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Beat vs. Rhythm
Beat vs. Rhythm Songs / Activities
Beat vs. Rhythm Other Worksheets / Assessments
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See also
Digital & Printable Visuals
- Point the Beats Handout, Heart, Steady Beat Rubric, Visuals
- Beat or No Beat Printables
