About this exercise
Rests begin. The quarter rest always appears on beat 4, the easiest place for it: three claps, then one beat of silence before starting again. The new challenge is "doing nothing" at the right time: hands stay open and the counting goes on.
A common mistake is cutting the rest short and clapping too early on the next 1. The whole note in the last bar closes the exercise with four beats of hands together, so you immediately feel the difference between holding a sound and being silent.
Before you start
The quarter rest (𝄽) is 1 beat of silence. During the rest your hands stay open, without clapping, and you keep counting the beat in silence.
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How to play it
- Count-in: the site counts 1 bar before starting ("1 2 3 4"). Clap the first note on beat 1 of bar 1.
- Reading: read the line on the yellow strip and look ahead to the next one: that's how you read ahead.
- Hands together: on notes longer than 1 beat (whole note) clap and keep your hands together until the end of the note: hands together = the sound keeps going.
- Rests: hands open, no clapping, and keep counting in silence.
How to practice
- Say the count out loud, without clapping, looking at the Bar by bar table.
- In Together mode, count and clap at the same time as the character.
- In Your turn mode, clap on your own. If it's hard, slow down and then come back.
Bar by bar
Bold = clap · (n) = don't clap, the sound keeps going (hands together) · [n] = rest, hands open.
| Bar | Notes | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 quarter notes, quarter rest | 1 2 3 [4] |
| 2 | 3 quarter notes, quarter rest | 1 2 3 [4] |
| 3 | 3 quarter notes, quarter rest | 1 2 3 [4] |
| 4 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, quarter note, quarter rest.