Review with the students that syncopation is rhythm accents occurring on the off-beat or weak beat. Using your preferred method of counting, prompt the students to echo-clap the eighth note, quarter note, eighth note rhythm pattern from the song.
Play the song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Prompt the students to identify the syncopated rhythm patterns. Echo-clap the rhythms. Echo-sing the rhythms with lyrics.
Explain an introduction is the preparatory section that begins a song. ASK Is the introduction in this song fast or slow? (slow)
Direct students to learn the introduction.
Teach students "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
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