Music is Math!

Try out this activity to see the connections between music and math.  Use the link below to open up Cyber Pattern Player.  Notice each row contains sixteen squares.  Build a measure in 4/4 time with a rhythm of your choice, and hear it played.  Highlight only the first square if all you'd like is a whole note.  Highlight only the first and the ninth if you'd like to play two half notes.  Which would need highlighted to create four quarter notes?  Pairs  of eighth notes?  How about sixteenth notes?  Mix and match your notes in a measure.  Create layers of instruments and give each a different rhythm.  A lot of possibilities here.

 Link to the Cyber Pattern Player