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Lesson 50 Beginner 1 test

  • Level test
  • 4/4
  • 80 bpm
  • 20 bars
  • 44 claps
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80 bpm

About this exercise

The Beginner 1 test has 20 bars at 80 bpm and covers everything the level taught: pulse, long notes, all three rests and silences at the start, middle and end of the bar. To complete it you need 3 stars three times in a row, which takes consistency, not just one lucky round.

If you complete it, you are ready for Beginner 2, which splits the beat in two with eighth notes ("1 and 2 and") and introduces the dotted half note.

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 4 quarter notes 1 2 3 4
2 2 quarter notes, half note 1 2 3 (4)
3 quarter note, quarter rest, 2 quarter notes 1 [2] 3 4
4 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
5 half note, 2 quarter notes 1 (2) 3 4
6 quarter rest, 3 quarter notes [1] 2 3 4
7 2 quarter notes, half rest 1 2 [3] [4]
8 2 half notes 1 (2) 3 (4)
9 quarter note, half note, quarter note 1 2 (3) 4
10 whole rest [1] [2] [3] [4]
11 2 quarter notes, quarter rest, quarter note 1 2 [3] 4
12 half rest, 2 quarter notes [1] [2] 3 4
13 half note, quarter note, quarter rest 1 (2) 3 [4]
14 quarter note, 2 quarter rests, quarter note 1 [2] [3] 4
15 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)
16 3 quarter notes, quarter rest 1 2 3 [4]
17 quarter rest, quarter note, half note [1] 2 3 (4)
18 half note, half rest 1 (2) [3] [4]
19 2 quarter notes, half note 1 2 3 (4)
20 whole note 1 (2) (3) (4)

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