Teachers should spend from five to ten minutes per class period in tonal and rhythm pattern instruction. The purpose is to help students bring greater understanding to classroom activities by focusing intensively on the tonal and rhythm patterns that make up music literature. There are three music learning sequences included in Music Learning Theory. They are skill learning sequence , tonal content learning sequence , and rhythm content learning sequence . At any given time during learning sequence activities, a level of skill learning sequence is being combined with a level of either tonal content learning sequence or rhythm content learning sequence.
Discrimination learning is rote learning.
It takes place when students are conscious of, though they may not fully understand, what they are being taught. For example, they may be taught that two familiar tonal patterns are the same or different. A student is conscious of what he is learning because he is being taught by someone else. Inference learning is conceptual learning. It takes place when a student is unconscious of what he is learning because he is teaching himself.