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Lesson 10 Block A review

  • Block review
  • 4/4
  • 72 bpm
  • 8 bars
  • 34 claps
72 bpm

About this exercise

The block A review brings together everything so far, at 72 bpm: eighth notes on each of the four beats, groups of four and six, half notes, whole notes and rests. Bar 4 has a half note and a half rest, and bar 6 starts in silence, with the eighth notes right on beat 2.

That start on a rest is the hardest point: count "1" inside, with your hands open, and clap the two eighth notes exactly on "2 &". If you still stumble, practice first at 60 bpm and go up little by little.

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How to play it

  1. Count-in: the site counts 1 bar before starting ("1 2 3 4"). Clap the first note on beat 1 of bar 1.
  2. Reading: read the line on the yellow strip and look ahead to the next one: that's how you read ahead.
  3. Hands together: on notes longer than 1 beat (half note and whole note) clap and keep your hands together until the end of the note: hands together = the sound keeps going.
  4. Rests: hands open, no clapping, and keep counting in silence.
  5. Eighth notes: count "1 & 2 &"; the "&" falls exactly in the middle of the beat.

How to practice

  1. Say the count out loud, without clapping, looking at the Bar by bar table.
  2. In Together mode, count and clap at the same time as the character.
  3. In Your turn mode, clap on your own. If it's hard, slow down and then come back.

Goal: ★★★ three times in a row at 72 bpm. Then the lesson is completed.

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Bar by bar

Bold = clap · (n) = don't clap, the sound keeps going (hands together) · [n] = rest, hands open.

Bar Notes Count
1 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 2 & 3 4
2 4 eighth notes, half note 1 & 2 & 3 (4)
3 2 quarter notes, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 3 & 4
4 half note, half rest 1 (2) [3] [4]
5 2 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 3 & 4
6 quarter rest, 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes [1] 2 & 3 4
7 6 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3 & 4
8 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, half rest, quarter rest.