Rhythm Echo

What your child learns

• Feeling a steady beat and keeping it while tapping
• Telling long sounds, short sounds and rests apart
• Counting how many drum beats you heard
• Hearing a low drum and a high drum and tapping the right one

How to play

1. Press "Play now" and turn the sound on. Bear plays a short drum rhythm.
2. The dots show the rhythm: a big dot is a long sound, small dots are short sounds, and a gap is a rest.
3. Your turn: tap the drum (or press Space or Enter) to play it back just like Bear.
4. If it is not quite right, the orange spot shows where, and Bear plays it again. The speaker button on the question bar replays it too.

For parents

• It starts with 2–3 even beats, then 4 beats, long and short sounds, rests, and finally two drums, one low and one high.
• Only the spacing between taps is compared, with a generous margin, so your child can start whenever they like and device or speaker lag does not count against them.
• Clap along and say "ta, ta, ti-ti, ta" with the dots: many music classes teach rhythm to young children this way.
• Sound on works best; with sound off, the dots still light up in time so your child can tap along by watching.