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Lesson 44 Eighth notes at 84 bpm

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 84 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 48 claps
84 bpm

About this exercise

The tempo goes up to 84 bpm: each eighth note lasts about a third of a second. There are 12 bars of 4/4 and 48 claps, with two groups of eighth notes, four in a row, eighth notes on beat 4 and a whole bar of eight eighth notes (bar 9).

At this speed, big claps fall behind. Make short, relaxed movements and keep counting out loud. Bar 11, with a rest on beat 3 in the middle of the claps, needs extra attention right after the effort of bars 9 and 10.

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