Toddlers use their emerging body mastery to learn about rhythm about such basic musical concepts as "high and low," "loud (forte) and quiet (piano)," and "bumpy (staccato) and smooth (legato)." And now that their sensory systems have settled in, most (but not all) children this age will want to be challenged more than they did as infants. Toddlers learn musical concepts kinesthetically, that is, they learn them by feeling them in their bodies. When you and your child moved to Doot Doot Deedle-eet, first smoothly and then bumpily, your child used his whole body to sense the difference. He may not be able to say "smooth" and "bumpy" (that's why we say it for him, over and over), but his body know just what to do.
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