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Lesson 13 Eighth notes in 3/4

  • Practice
  • 3/4
  • 60 bpm
  • 8 bars
  • 25 claps
60 bpm

About this exercise

Now 3/4 time: "1 & 2 & 3 &". The exercise starts with a bar of quarter notes only to settle the count of three, and then the pair of eighth notes travels through the bar: on beat 1 (bar 2), on beat 2 (bar 3) and on beat 3 (bar 5). Bar 6 has four eighth notes in a row.

In 3/4 beat 1 is the anchor, like in a waltz. Feel that anchor even when it has two claps, and notice the last bar: a half note and a rest, with beat 3 in silence.

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How to play it

  1. Count-in: the site counts 1 bar before starting ("1 2 3"). 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) 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 60 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 3 quarter notes 1 2 3
2 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
3 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 & 3
4 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
5 2 quarter notes, 2 eighth notes 1 2 3 &
6 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3
7 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
8 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]

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