### Play a Merry Tune

Explore the different tunes you can make with these five gourds. What are the similarities and differences between the two tunes you are given?

### Beat the Drum Beat!

Use the interactivity to create some steady rhythms. How could you create a rhythm which sounds the same forwards as it does backwards?

# Music to My Ears

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

You could have a go at Clapping Times before trying this problem.

This is a very practical activity - you might like to use some musical instruments, for example a drum or a triangle, rather than using your hands and parts of your body.

Begin a rhythm: clap, clap, click (your fingers), clap, clap, click, clap, clap, click, clap, clap, click ...

What will you be doing on the $15$th beat?
How do you know this without actually doing it?
What will you be doing on the $20$th beat?
Again, explain how you can predict this.
How about on the $99$th beat?
What would you be doing on the $100$th beat?

If there is someone else with you, ask them to come and join in. If you're on your own, it doesn't matter, you'll just have to imagine that someone else is there.

You and your friend are going to both start a different rhythm at the same time.
You will do clap, clap, click, clap, clap, click ... as you did before.
Ask your friend to do click, clap, clap, click, clap, clap, click, clap, clap ...

Have a go so that you get a steady rhythm going.
If you both start at the same time, when will you both click your fingers at the same time?
Why?
Are there other ways that you could have clapped and clicked for this to be the case?

How could you change your rhythms so that you do click at the same time?
How could you predict when this was?