MusicYears 3–5Drums/Percussion

Drums/Percussion Grade 3: Sight-Reading

Sight-reading in keys up to 2 sharps/flats; dotted rhythms; simple rests; tempo indications

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a toy drum 🥁. When you tap it once, that's one beat. When you tap it twice fast, that's two beats in the same time!

  2. 2

    How many taps do you do for a short-short sound?

  3. 3

    Tap the drum to play this pattern: long, short-short, long.

  4. 4

    Let's read a rhythm together! 🎶

  5. 5

    What word do we say for a short-short sound?

  6. 6

    Tap this new pattern: short-short, short-short, long, long.

  7. 7

    How many beats are in this pattern: long, long, short-short, long?

Practise Drums/Percussion Grade 3: Sight-Reading with Whizlo

Free AI-tutored lessons, unlimited practice questions, and progress tracking for ages 7–10. Aligned to the UK National Curriculum.