Grade Five Music Theory - Lesson 3: Time Signatures Exercises
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Exercise 1: Time Signatures - Technical Names
Describe each of these time signatures as:
- Simple or compound AND
- Duple, triple or quadruple
Or, as irregular.
Exercise 2: Time Signatures - Meanings
3/2 represents 3 minim (half note) beats per bar. What do the following time signatures represent?
Exercise 3 - Adding Barlines
Put in the missing barlines in the following passages, which all begin on the first beat of the bar:
Exercise 4 - Understanding Time Signatures
- Which two simple time signatures can have a lower number 8?
- When there are two tied notes, which one must fall on a new main beat: the first note or the second?
- How can you tell the difference between 3/2 and 6/4?
- In compound time, is the main beat a dotted or undotted note?
- In which type of time signature does the main beat divide up into two: simple or compound?
Exercise 5 - Adding Time Signatures
Add the correct time signatures to each of these bars.
Exercise 6 - Rewriting a Rhythm Without Changing the Rhythmic Effect
For each of the following simple time melodies;
- Describe the time signature as duple/triple/quadruple
- Convert the time signature to compound time
- Write in the new time signature and rewrite the rhythm without changing the rhythmic effect.
For each of the following compound time melodies;
- Describe the time signature as duple/triple/quadruple
- Convert the time signature to simple time
- Write in the new time signature and rewrite the rhythm without changing the rhythmic effect.