In fourth grade music, we begin by reviewing essential concepts learned in earlier grades. This includes:

• Matching pitch
• Keeping a steady beat
• Echoing simple rhythms and melodic phrases
• Musical elements such as loud/soft, high/low, and fast/slow

Fourth grade music learning goals include:

• Learning musical notation: note names and symbols on the staff
• Matching and performing solfege pitches "sol", "mi", "la", "do", and "ti".
• Reading and performing simple rhythms from musical notation, such as quarter, 8th, half, and whole notes/rests with numerical counting
• Singing in rounds and canons
• Expanding knowledge of famous works and composers
• Learning how to improvise during group songs and games
• Performing, creating, and improvising on mallet instruments (soprano glockenspiels) and unpitched percussion
• Performing, creating and improvising on bucket drums