About this exercise
With the rest on beat 2, the bar becomes "clap, silence, clap, clap". The silence comes right after the first clap, and beginners tend to rush the next two claps.
In bar 3 the rest moves to beat 3: a test to see whether you are really reading or just repeating the pattern of the first two bars. Look at bar 3 before you get there.
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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 | quarter note, quarter rest, 2 quarter notes | 1 [2] 3 4 |
| 2 | quarter note, quarter rest, 2 quarter notes | 1 [2] 3 4 |
| 3 | 2 quarter notes, quarter rest, quarter note | 1 2 [3] 4 |
| 4 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, quarter note, quarter rest.