About this exercise
All three rest sizes are together: quarter (1 beat), half (2) and whole (4). Bar 6 is a full bar of silence and comes right after a bar with two alternating quarter rests, which calls for concentration on the count.
Use this lesson to lock in the visual difference between the three rests, especially between the half rest (on top of the middle line) and the whole rest (below the 4th line), which are easy to mix up.
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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 (half note and 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, quarter note, quarter rest | 1 [2] 3 [4] |
| 2 | 2 quarter notes, half rest | 1 2 [3] [4] |
| 3 | half rest, 2 quarter notes | [1] [2] 3 4 |
| 4 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
| 5 | quarter rest, quarter note, quarter rest, quarter note | [1] 2 [3] 4 |
| 6 | whole rest | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| 7 | 2 quarter notes, half note | 1 2 3 (4) |
| 8 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note, whole rest, half rest, quarter rest.