About this exercise
Half note against half rest, whole note against whole rest: the whole lesson revolves around the difference between holding the sound and being silent. In bars 1 to 4, each long note has a matching long rest.
Make the gesture clear: hands pressed together while the note sounds, hands wide open and still in the silence. Anyone watching should be able to tell whether there is sound just by looking at your hands.
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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 | half note, half rest | 1 (2) [3] [4] |
| 2 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
| 3 | half rest, half note | [1] [2] 3 (4) |
| 4 | whole rest | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| 5 | 2 half notes | 1 (2) 3 (4) |
| 6 | half rest, 2 quarter notes | [1] [2] 3 4 |
| 7 | 2 quarter notes, half rest | 1 2 [3] [4] |
| 8 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note, whole rest, half rest.