You've Got Rhythm Syllabus

• Part One: Get Rhythm!
• Meter
• Tempo
• Whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, and eighth notes and rests
• 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 (Common) time signatures
• Ties
• Syncopation across metric accents
• Verse/Refrain form; repeat signs
• Meter changes
• 2/2 (Cut) time

• Part Two: Compound Meter
• Sixteenth and dotted sixteenth notes and rests
• 3/8, 6/8, and 12/8 time signatures
• Hemiola
• First and second endings

• Part Three: Syncopation Betweeen the Beats
• Four divisions in a beat
• Syncopation between beats
• Syncopation with sixteenth notes

• Part Four: Tuplets, Double Dots, Suspending the Meter, and No Meter
• Eighth and quarter note triplets
• Triples, duples, and odd tuplets
• Absence of time signature
• Chant

• Part Five: Irregular and Shifting Meters
• Irregular meters (5/4, 5/8, 7/8, and 10/8)
• Shifting beat values (6/8 and 3/4; 5/8 and 2/4; etc.)