About this exercise
The first lesson with all three notes mixed without a fixed pattern: each bar has a different combination of quarter, half and whole notes, and the whole note appears in bars 2, 4 and 8 as a resting point.
This is the first real reading exercise: instead of memorizing a pattern, you have to look at every bar. That is why reading one bar ahead starts to matter. Use the whole notes, when your hands are still, to move your eyes forward.
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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.
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 | 2 quarter notes, half note | 1 2 3 (4) |
| 2 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
| 3 | half note, 2 quarter notes | 1 (2) 3 4 |
| 4 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
| 5 | quarter note, half note, quarter note | 1 2 (3) 4 |
| 6 | 2 half notes | 1 (2) 3 (4) |
| 7 | 4 quarter notes | 1 2 3 4 |
| 8 | whole note | 1 (2) (3) (4) |
Notes used: whole note, half note, quarter note.