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Lesson 40 Block D review

  • Block review
  • 4/4
  • 80 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 48 claps
80 bpm

About this exercise

The block D review has 12 bars of 4/4 at 80 bpm and 48 claps. It brings back the block's patterns (eighth notes on beats 1 and 3, on beats 2 and 4, three beats of eighth notes in a row) and puts the dotted half note before the eighth notes in bar 3.

Notice bar 8, which starts with a half rest and only has sound in its second half, and bar 6, with a rest on beat 2. Those are the spots where counting inside decides everything. Whoever passes this review is ready for the long readings of block E.

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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, dotted 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 80 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, 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 & 3 & 4
2 2 eighth notes, quarter note, half note 1 & 2 3 (4)
3 dotted half note, 2 eighth notes 1 (2) (3) 4 &
4 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
5 4 eighth notes, half note 1 & 2 & 3 (4)
6 quarter note, quarter rest, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 [2] 3 & 4
7 2 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 3 & 4
8 half rest, half note [1] [2] 3 (4)
9 6 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3 & 4
10 quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes 1 2 & 3 4 &
11 2 eighth notes, quarter note, half note 1 & 2 3 (4)
12 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

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