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Lesson 19 4/4 in 12 bars

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 72 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 49 claps
72 bpm

About this exercise

Back to 4/4, now in 12 bars and 49 claps at 72 bpm. The exercise reviews block A at a faster pace: two groups of eighth notes (bars 1 and 9), four in a row, a whole bar of eight eighth notes (bar 6) and a start on a rest in bar 5.

Bar 6 is the peak of effort: eight even claps, no rest. Right after, bars 7 and 8 calm down with half notes and a half rest. Use that pause to recover your evenness before the last line.

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

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