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Teach students to compose in 5/4 with this composition guide.

Students will roll dice for rhythm and pitches in order to give them the foundation they need to create their own composition in the key of C.

5/4 is an irregular meter which most piano students rarely play. It is exciting to introduce them to this meter in composition!

Once students have mastered the 2/4 composition guide, 3/4 composition guide, and 4/4 composition, they will be ready for the challenge of 5/4!

Once your students have composed music in 5/4 a few times, they should begin to experiment above and beyond the guide to keep creating original melodies in 5/4.

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Get all four composition guides in the composition bundle here.

Includes 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 5/4 composition guides.

What’s included in the 5/4 Composition Guide

You will receive everything you need to walk your student through composing music in 5/4 in the key of C.

• 1 PDF document, 21 pages total
• How to use the composition guide instruction sheet
• 5/4 Beginner composition guide
• 5/4 Beginner composition worksheet
• 5/4 Upper level composition guide
• 5/4 Upper level composition worksheet
• Staff paper for upper level
• Extra worksheets and staff paper
• Chord charts
• Blank chord charts
• Video tutorial for beginner composition guide
• Video tutorial for upper level composition guide

Teaching Students How to Compose Music

In this video, I give you some tips for how to help your students compose music with these guided composition worksheets.

You will see how the beginning composition worksheet can be used to students who only know piano keys (or just five notes) but not rhythms, or students who know piano keys and rhythms, and students who know piano keys, rhythms, and a few chords.

I also go through the upper level composition worksheet and how it can be used for students who know just a little note reading and simpler rhythms, students who are confident in note reading and rhythms (Level 2-3 students), and also more advanced students who may still need the structure to compose.

Don’t see the video above? Watch Teaching Students to Compose Music here. 

Do a full camp on music composition!

This composition guide is included in the 5-day Creek, Crick, Croak Composing Camp curriculum.

Bundle all four composition guides and save!

Get all four composition guides to set your students up for success in composing in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 5/4. Get the composition guide bundle here.