About this exercise
A lesson devoted to long silence: two whole rests (bars 2 and 6) and five half rests, some of them in neighboring bars. In bars 3 and 4, for example, there are 4 beats of silence in a row crossing the bar line.
It is the exercise that tests your inner clock the most, because several beats go by without a single clap to use as a reference. Also look at bars 9 and 10: the quarter rest at the end of one joins the half rest at the start of the other, making 3 beats of silence.
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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 | 4 quarter notes | 1 2 3 4 |
| 2 | whole rest | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| 3 | half note, half rest | 1 (2) [3] [4] |
| 4 | half rest, half note | [1] [2] 3 (4) |
| 5 | 2 quarter notes, half rest | 1 2 [3] [4] |
| 6 | whole rest | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| 7 | quarter rest, 3 quarter notes | [1] 2 3 4 |
| 8 | half note, half rest | 1 (2) [3] [4] |
| 9 | 3 quarter notes, quarter rest | 1 2 3 [4] |
| 10 | half rest, 2 quarter notes | [1] [2] 3 4 |
| 11 | 2 quarter notes, half note | 1 2 3 (4) |
| 12 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note, whole rest, half rest, quarter rest.