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Lesson 48 Mixed reading: 16 bars

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 84 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 56 claps
84 bpm

About this exercise

Mixed reading of 16 bars of 4/4 at 84 bpm, with 56 claps. It combines the two previous lessons, silence and long notes, with every eighth-note pattern. Bar 4 is a whole bar of rest, and the third phrase has a half rest (bar 10) and two half notes (bar 12).

It is the last reading before the test rehearsal. If it comes out three times in a row at 84 bpm, you are already at test pace; if you still stumble, isolate the hard phrase and practice it slower before playing everything.

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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.

The full practice method →

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