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Lesson 42 Reading in 3/4: 16 bars

  • Practice
  • 3/4
  • 76 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 46 claps
76 bpm

About this exercise

Sixteen bars of 3/4 at 76 bpm, 46 claps. The dotted half note appears three times (bars 3, 8 and 16), closing the second and the last phrase, and the rests appear at the start of bar 7 and at the end of bars 12 and 15.

In a long reading in 3/4 it is common to "slip" into 4/4 without noticing, stretching the bars. Feel the anchor on 1 every three beats, like in a waltz, and watch bar 11: six eighth notes in a row, the only bar completely filled.

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

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