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Lesson 36 Question and answer with eighth notes

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 76 bpm
  • 8 bars
  • 36 claps
76 bpm

About this exercise

Phrases shaped as question and answer, at 76 bpm. Bars 1 and 2 form a question (quarter note, eighth notes and quarter notes) and an answer ending on a half note; bars 3 and 4 repeat the idea with a small change. The second half of the exercise answers with eighth notes in two groups.

Thinking in phrases helps you not to get lost: the half note is the "full stop" of each answer. Bar 7, with four eighth notes, a quarter note and two more eighth notes on beat 4, is the busiest; get ready by looking at it during the half note in bar 6.

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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. 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 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 2 & 3 4
2 4 eighth notes, half note 1 & 2 & 3 (4)
3 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes 1 2 & 3 4
4 2 eighth notes, quarter note, half note 1 & 2 3 (4)
5 2 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 3 & 4
6 2 quarter notes, half note 1 2 3 (4)
7 4 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes 1 & 2 & 3 4 &
8 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

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