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Lesson 20 Block B review

  • Block review
  • 3/4
  • 76 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 38 claps
76 bpm

About this exercise

The block B review is in 3/4, with 12 bars at 76 bpm, the fastest tempo so far in the level. It brings together eighth notes in every position, rests at the start (bar 6) and in the middle of the bar (bar 10), and six eighth notes in a row in bar 9.

Here the challenge is speed: at 76 bpm each eighth note lasts less than half a second. If the claps start to blur, practice at 66 bpm until you get it three times in a row and only then go back to the lesson's tempo.

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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 76 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, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
2 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
3 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 & 3
4 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]
5 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3
6 quarter rest, 2 eighth notes, quarter note [1] 2 & 3
7 2 eighth notes, half note 1 & 2 (3)
8 3 quarter notes 1 2 3
9 6 eighth notes 1 & 2 & 3 &
10 quarter note, quarter rest, quarter note 1 [2] 3
11 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
12 half note, quarter rest 1 (2) [3]

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