CCS Rhythm and Tonal Activities continue to increase in difficulty throughout the entire curriculum, yet in a natural progression for your child. Sometimes difficulty is achieved in obvious ways, as with Level 2 Activities introducing Rhythm and Tonal Dialogue, Macro/Micro Beats, and Resting Tone, and Level 3 Activities introducing Rhythm and Tonal Syllables. Much of the increasing difficulty, however, is achieved very subtly through rhythm and tonal content. Rhythm difficulty can be achieved through the choice of meter, the rhythm patterns within a meter, the order and combination of rhythm patterns, and tempo. Tonal difficulty can be achieved through tonality, tonal patterns, steps and skips, vocal range, contour of melody, and interestingly, through rhythm. Tonal is layered on top of rhythm, so every nuance that increases rhythm difficulty increases tonal difficulty when rhythm and tonal are in tandem. Several of these difficulty factors, together, can increase difficulty exponentially. CCS Rhythm and Tonal Activities are very carefully designed with progressive difficulty so that your child develops the readiness for each new challenge, learning music as naturally as language.