10 Rhythm Clapping Sheets in 3/4 Time

3/4 Time Rhythm Clapping Sheets

10 Sheets with a variety of rhythms for students to clap. Students are asked to write the counting underneath each rhythm (examples given) and then tick off each rhythm they can successfully clap.

All rhythms are in 3/4.

2 Sheets for students to write their own rhythms.

Answer sheets with the counting underneath included.

• Sheet 1: 10 rhythms focusing on quarter notes and pairs of eighth notes (crotchets and pairs of quavers).

• Sheet 2: 10 rhythms focusing on quarter notes, quarter note rests and pairs of eighth notes (crotchets, crotchet rests and pairs of quavers).

• Sheet 3: 10 rhythms introducing half notes (minims).

• Sheets 4 & 5: 6 rhythms on each sheet focusing on sixteenth notes (semiquavers) in groups of 4.

• Sheet 6: 6 rhythms focusing on dotted quarter notes and eighth note pattern (dotted crotchet and quaver pattern).

• Sheet 7: combines all the rhythms used in sheets 1-6

• Sheet 8: 5 rhythms focusing on 2 sixteenth notes and 1 eighth note pattern (2 semiquavers and 1 quaver pattern).

• Sheet 9: 5 rhythms focusing on 1 eighth note and 2 sixteenth notes pattern (1 quaver and 2 semiquavers pattern).

• Sheet 10: combines all the rhythms used in sheets 1-9.

• Sheet 11: students write their own rhythms.

• Sheet 12: students write one rhythm of their own, and then copy rhythms from 4 of their classmates.

Great to use if you have different abilities within your class. Great to support student understanding when introducing new note values.

Sheets 11 & 12 suitable for any knowledge level.

Sheets in American and English version.

Color and printer friendly B&W versions.

PDF format.