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Lesson 16 3/4: eighth notes and rests

  • Practice
  • 3/4
  • 66 bpm
  • 8 bars
  • 22 claps
66 bpm

About this exercise

Rests and eighth notes in 3/4. Each bar puts the silence in a different place: on beat 3 (bar 1), on beat 1 (bars 2 and 6) and on beat 2 (bar 3). Bar 7 has four eighth notes and ends on a rest, and the last one closes with a half note and a rest.

Bars 2 and 6, which start in silence, are the hardest. Notice bar 6 too: after the rest comes a quarter note and only then the eighth notes, on beat 3. Say the whole count, including the numbers of the rests.

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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 66 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 2 eighth notes, quarter note, quarter rest 1 & 2 [3]
2 quarter rest, 2 eighth notes, quarter note [1] 2 & 3
3 2 eighth notes, quarter rest, quarter note 1 & [2] 3
4 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]
5 2 quarter notes, 2 eighth notes 1 2 3 &
6 quarter rest, quarter note, 2 eighth notes [1] 2 3 &
7 4 eighth notes, quarter rest 1 & 2 & [3]
8 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]

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