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Lesson 18 3/4 in 12 bars

  • Practice
  • 3/4
  • 72 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 37 claps
72 bpm

About this exercise

Twelve bars of 3/4 at 72 bpm, with everything the block showed in this time signature: eighth notes on every beat, groups of four and six (bar 9), half notes and rests. Bar 6 has a rest in the middle ("1 [2] 3 &") and bar 11 ends in silence.

The reading is long enough to tire your attention around bar 8. Keep the "1" of each bar well felt and don't let the rests at the end of phrases (bars 4 and 12) turn into a rush to start the next one.

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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 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, quarter note 1 2 & 3
2 2 eighth notes, half note 1 & 2 (3)
3 3 quarter notes 1 2 3
4 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]
5 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3
6 quarter note, quarter rest, 2 eighth notes 1 [2] 3 &
7 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
8 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
9 6 eighth notes 1 & 2 & 3 &
10 quarter note, half note 1 2 (3)
11 2 eighth notes, quarter note, quarter rest 1 & 2 [3]
12 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]

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