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Lesson 39 2/4 in 12 bars

  • Practice
  • 2/4
  • 72 bpm
  • 12 bars
  • 15 claps
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72 bpm

About this exercise

The same idea as lesson 38, now in 2/4 at 72 bpm. With 2-beat bars, the reading moves faster: 12 bars in only 24 beats.

Bar 8 is a full bar of silence, and bars 9 and 10 put rests side by side (end of one, start of the next), forming a 2-beat silence that crosses the bar line. That passage is the heart of the lesson: count "2, 1" without clapping and come in on 2 of bar 10.

Lesson video: watch and listen to the whole exercise before you practice.
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How to play it

  1. Count-in: the site counts 1 bar before starting ("1 2"). 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) 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 72 bpm. Then the lesson is completed.

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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 1 2
2 quarter note, quarter rest 1 [2]
3 half note 1 (2)
4 2 quarter notes 1 2
5 quarter rest, quarter note [1] 2
6 half note 1 (2)
7 2 quarter notes 1 2
8 half rest [1] [2]
9 quarter note, quarter rest 1 [2]
10 quarter rest, quarter note [1] 2
11 2 quarter notes 1 2
12 half note 1 (2)

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