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Lesson 45 3/4 at 84 bpm

  • Practice
  • 3/4
  • 84 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 34 claps
84 bpm

About this exercise

3/4 also reaches 84 bpm, in 12 bars and 34 claps. The exercise alternates busy bars, with eighth notes, and long-note bars: the dotted half note (bars 2, 6 and 12) or a half note with a quarter note.

At a fast tempo, the long note is short on the clock and it is tempting to open your hands too soon. Watch bar 7, which starts in silence, and bar 11, which ends on a rest just before the final dotted half note.

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

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