Lesson 15 3/4: six eighth notes
- Practice
- 3/4
- 66 bpm
- 8 bars
- 32 claps
About this exercise
The exercise opens with six eighth notes, the whole 3/4 bar filled: "1 & 2 & 3 &". The same figure returns in bar 6. In the middle, groups of four eighth notes appear at the start (bar 3) and at the end of the bar (bar 5), and the tempo goes up to 66 bpm.
Six even claps in a row tire the hand and invite you to speed up. Keep the movement small and let beat 1 of each bar be a little more marked: it is the reference point that keeps you from getting lost.
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How to play it
- Count-in: the site counts 1 bar before starting ("1 2 3"). Clap the first note on beat 1 of bar 1.
- Reading: read the line on the yellow strip and look ahead to the next one: that's how you read ahead.
- 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.
- Rests: hands open, no clapping, and keep counting in silence.
- Eighth notes: count "1 & 2 &"; the "&" falls exactly in the middle of the beat.
How to practice
- Say the count out loud, without clapping, looking at the Bar by bar table.
- In Together mode, count and clap at the same time as the character.
- In Your turn mode, clap on your own. If it's hard, slow down and then come back.
Bar by bar
Bold = clap · (n) = don't clap, the sound keeps going (hands together) · [n] = rest, hands open.
| Bar | Notes | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 eighth notes | 1 & 2 & 3 & |
| 2 | 3 quarter notes | 1 2 3 |
| 3 | 4 eighth notes, quarter note | 1 & 2 & 3 |
| 4 | half note, quarter note | 1 (2) 3 |
| 5 | quarter note, 4 eighth notes | 1 2 & 3 & |
| 6 | 6 eighth notes | 1 & 2 & 3 & |
| 7 | 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes | 1 & 2 3 |
| 8 | half note, quarter rest | 1 (2) [3] |
Notes used: half note, quarter note, eighth note, quarter rest.