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Lesson 49 Test rehearsal

  • Test rehearsal
  • 4/4
  • 84 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 56 claps
84 bpm

About this exercise

The test rehearsal has the shape of the test, only a little shorter: 16 bars of 4/4 at 84 bpm and 56 claps. Here you will find a whole bar of eight eighth notes (bar 9), a bar of silence (bar 12), a bar that starts with a half rest (bar 8) and dotted half notes in both positions.

Do it as if it were the test: without stopping to fix things. If you miss a clap, keep counting and come in on the next beat. Knowing how to recover is as important as not making mistakes.

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