About this exercise
The rest moves to beat 3, in the middle of the bar. Now the silence sits between two claps, and you have to come back on beat 4 without delay. Bar 3 puts the rest back on beat 4, as in the previous lesson, so you can compare both positions.
Say "3" out loud (or a quiet "rest") while your hands are open. Giving the silence a name keeps you from swallowing the beat and keeps the bar at four full beats.
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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 | 2 quarter notes, quarter rest, quarter note | 1 2 [3] 4 |
| 2 | 2 quarter notes, quarter rest, quarter note | 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.