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Lesson 41 Reading in 4/4: 16 bars

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 76 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 58 claps
76 bpm

About this exercise

Continuous reading begins: 16 bars of 4/4 at 76 bpm, 58 claps. The four four-bar phrases use everything the level has taught, and each one ends in a place of rest: a whole note, a half rest, a whole bar of silence (bar 12) and the final whole note.

The whole rest in bar 12 is the riskiest point: four beats without a clap in the middle of the reading. Count "1, 2, 3, 4" inside, hands open, and come in with the eighth notes of bar 13 exactly on 1.

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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 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 quarter notes, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 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 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
5 2 eighth notes, quarter note, 2 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 3 & 4
6 dotted half note, quarter note 1 (2) (3) 4
7 quarter rest, 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes [1] 2 & 3 4
8 half note, half rest 1 (2) [3] [4]
9 6 eighth notes, quarter note 1 & 2 & 3 & 4
10 2 quarter notes, half note 1 2 3 (4)
11 quarter note, 4 eighth notes, quarter note 1 2 & 3 & 4
12 whole rest [1] [2] [3] [4]
13 2 eighth notes, 3 quarter notes 1 & 2 3 4
14 quarter note, dotted half note 1 2 (3) (4)
15 4 eighth notes, quarter note, quarter rest 1 & 2 & 3 [4]
16 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

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