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Lesson 25 Two quarter rests in a row

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 66 bpm
  • 8 bars
  • 13 claps
66 bpm

Before you start

A 2-beat silence that starts on beat 2 is written with two quarter rests, to show where the middle of the bar is. It sounds the same as a half rest.

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 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.

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 66 bpm. Then the lesson is completed.

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, 2 quarter rests, quarter note 1 [2] [3] 4
2 quarter note, 2 quarter rests, quarter note 1 [2] [3] 4
3 2 quarter rests, 2 quarter notes [1] [2] 3 4
4 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
5 2 quarter notes, 2 quarter rests 1 2 [3] [4]
6 2 quarter rests, half note [1] [2] 3 (4)
7 quarter note, 2 quarter rests, quarter note 1 [2] [3] 4
8 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note, quarter rest.