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Lesson 30 Block C review

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

About this exercise

The block C review goes back to 3/4, with 12 bars at 76 bpm. It combines dotted half notes, half notes, eighth notes in groups of two, four and six (bar 9) and ends with a rest on beat 3 of bar 11, just before the last dotted half note.

The faster tempo makes the long notes shorter on the clock, but not in the count: three beats are still three beats. Check that each dotted half note lasts until the next "1" and that the rest in bar 11 really stays silent.

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

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