Rhythm 2A: Tie, dot

Topic outline

• Welcome!
  

  Welcome!

  With this course you can practise:
  

  • Ties connecting eight notes
  • Dotted quarter note
  • Syncopation

  Recommended to study before this course:

  • Rhythm 1B
• Ties
  

  Ties

  Ties inside the measures:

  
  

  
  

  Ties between the measures:

  
  

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 1. Select wrong measure mmusic
  • 1. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic
  • 1. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
  • 1. Listen and tap mmusic
• Dotted quarter note
  

  Dotted quarter note

  A dot after a quarter note increases the duration of it by an eight note. The measures below are equal (played similarly).

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 2. Select wrong measure mmusic
  • 2. Add notes to all empty measures mmusic
  • 2. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
  • 2. Listen and tap mmusic
• Syncopation
  

  Syncopation

  Syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur" (Wikipedia)
  

  Examples:

  
  

  
  

  • Example mmusic
  • EXERCISES
  • 3. Click the 1st notes of measures mmusic
  • 3. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic
  • 3. Tap the written rhythm mmusic
• Additional exercises
  

  Additional exercises

  • Handel: Suite No. 1 in F, HWV 348, VII. Menuet mmusic
  • Handel: Menuet HWV 540b mmusic