Rhythm 2A: Tie, dot

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• Select section Welcome!

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  Welcome!

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  With this course you can practise:
  

  • Ties connecting eighth notes
  • Dotted quarter note
  • Syncopation

  Recommended to study before this course:

  • Rhythm 1B
• Select section Ties

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  Ties

  Ties inside the measures:

  
  

  
  

  Ties between the measures:

  
  

  
  

  • Select activity Example

    

    Example mmusic

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  • Select activity EXERCISES

    EXERCISES
  • Select activity 1. Select wrong measure

    

    1. Select wrong measure mmusic

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    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 1. Add notes to one empty measure

    

    1. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 1. Tap the written rhythm

    

    1. Tap the written rhythm mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 1. Listen and tap

    

    1. Listen and tap mmusic

    Completion

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    Receive a grade
• Select section Dotted quarter note

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  Dotted quarter note

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

  
  

  • Select activity Example

    

    Example mmusic

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    Mark as done
  • Select activity EXERCISES

    EXERCISES
  • Select activity 2. Select wrong measure

    

    2. Select wrong measure mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 2. Add notes to all empty measures

    

    2. Add notes to all empty measures mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 2. Tap the written rhythm

    

    2. Tap the written rhythm mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 2. Listen and tap

    

    2. Listen and tap mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
• Select section Syncopation

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  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:

  
  

  
  

  • Select activity Example

    

    Example mmusic

    Completion

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    Mark as done
  • Select activity EXERCISES

    EXERCISES
  • Select activity 3. Click the 1st notes of measures

    

    3. Click the 1st notes of measures mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 3. Add notes to one empty measure

    

    3. Add notes to one empty measure mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
  • Select activity 3. Tap the written rhythm

    

    3. Tap the written rhythm mmusic

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Receive a grade
• Select section Additional exercises

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  Additional exercises

  • Select activity Handel: Suite No. 1 in F, HWV 348, VII. Menuet

    

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

    

    Handel: Menuet HWV 540b mmusic