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Lesson 46 Silences and eighth notes

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 80 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 33 claps
80 bpm

About this exercise

An exercise about silence: 12 bars of 4/4 at 80 bpm with quarter, half and whole rests (bar 4). Only 33 claps, and much of the work is counting without clapping. Several bars start on a rest (2, 3 and 9), and bar 9 has two rests separated by eighth notes.

The challenge is coming in with eighth notes right after a silence, without being late. Say the numbers of the rests quietly and keep your hands open and ready. The whole note in bar 8 is the only real rest before the end.

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

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