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Lesson 43 Reading in 2/4: 16 bars

  • Practice
  • 2/4
  • 76 bpm
  • 16 bars
  • 20 claps
76 bpm

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 76 bpm. Then the lesson is completed.

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 half note 1 (2)
3 quarter note, quarter rest 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 2 quarter notes 1 2
10 quarter note, quarter rest 1 [2]
11 half note 1 (2)
12 quarter rest, quarter note [1] 2
13 2 quarter notes 1 2
14 half rest [1] [2]
15 2 quarter notes 1 2
16 half note 1 (2)

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