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Lesson 48 Mixed reading: 16 bars

  • Practice
  • 4/4
  • 80 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 34 claps
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80 bpm

About this exercise

16 bars at 80 bpm with every note and rest in the level. Highlights: bar 4 is a full bar of silence, bar 10 has two quarter rests in a row in the middle, and bar 14 starts with a rest and ends with a half note.

It is the longest and fastest reading so far and works as direct preparation for the rehearsal and the test. If one passage always fails, practice it slower before going back to the tempo.

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 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 80 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, half note 1 2 3 (4)
2 quarter note, quarter rest, 2 quarter notes 1 [2] 3 4
3 2 half notes 1 (2) 3 (4)
4 whole rest [1] [2] [3] [4]
5 quarter rest, 3 quarter notes [1] 2 3 4
6 4 quarter notes 1 2 3 4
7 half rest, half note [1] [2] 3 (4)
8 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
9 half note, quarter note, quarter rest 1 (2) 3 [4]
10 quarter note, 2 quarter rests, quarter note 1 [2] [3] 4
11 2 quarter notes, half rest 1 2 [3] [4]
12 2 half notes 1 (2) 3 (4)
13 quarter note, half note, quarter note 1 2 (3) 4
14 quarter rest, quarter note, half note [1] 2 3 (4)
15 3 quarter notes, quarter rest 1 2 3 [4]
16 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

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