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Lesson 28 3/4: 12 bars with dotted half notes

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

About this exercise

Twelve bars of 3/4 at 72 bpm, mixing the dotted half note with everything the level has shown in this time signature: eighth notes in several positions, four eighth notes in a row (bar 8), a half note with a quarter note before or after it. The dotted half note appears four times, always closing an idea.

Since the dotted half note fills the whole bar, it works as the full stop of the phrases. Use those bars to look ahead and be careful in bars 7 and 9, where the plain half note appears before and after the quarter note.

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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 and dotted half note) clap and keep your hands together until the end of the note: hands together = the sound keeps going.
  4. 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 3 quarter notes 1 2 3
2 dotted half note 1 (2) (3)
3 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
4 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
5 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 & 3
6 dotted half note 1 (2) (3)
7 half note, quarter note 1 (2) 3
8 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3
9 quarter note, half note 1 2 (3)
10 dotted half note 1 (2) (3)
11 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 & 2 3
12 dotted half note 1 (2) (3)

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