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Pickup notes: Lesson 6 Practice Patterns 601-610
This page features rhythm patterns with pickup notes of one or two beats in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. Read the introduction section on pickup notes to make sure that you understand how to count pickup notes and how to perform them. Also, read the practice suggestions for pickup notes for ideas on how to work on these rhythms.
Each rhythm pattern includes an audio example that you can listen to and play along with. Unlike the patterns in the previous lessons, the audio examples here do not begin with two complete measures before the pattern begins. In these examples, the rhythm pattern will begin in the second count-off measure.
More Practice Patterns: Pickup measures of half a beat and one and a half beats, patterns 611-620
Practice Pattern Table of Contents
Lesson 6 Introduction to pickup notes
Lesson 6 Practice Suggestion on pickup notes
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Buy the book, The Fundamentals of Rhythm.
Part 1: Pickup Measures of One Beat
Pattern 601: With MetronomeBot counting, quarter note = 72, on Concert A.
Since there are no eighth notes in this pattern, the beat is not subdivided. You do not need to count the “ands” between the beats.
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Pattern 602: Metronome clicks (not subdivided), with MetronomeBot counting the subdivisions, quarter note = 60, on Concert F.
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Pattern 603: Quarter note = 72, on Concert C.
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Pattern 604: Metronome clicks (not subdivided), with MetronomeBot counting the subdivided beat, quarter note = 60, on Concert B flat.
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Pattern 605: Quarter note = 88, on Concert A.
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Part 2: Pickup Measures of Two Beats
Pattern 606: Metronome clicks (not subdivided), with MetronomeBot counting the beat, quarter note = 96, on Concert B flat. Like Pattern 601, there are no eighths notes in Pattern 606, so the beat is not subdivided and you don’t need to count the “ands” between the beats.
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Pattern 607: Metronome clicks (not subdivided), with MetronomeBot counting the subdivided beat, quarter note = 60, on Concert D.
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Pattern 608: Quarter note = 80, on Concert E.
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Pattern 609: Quarter note = 88, on Concert C.
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Pattern 610: Quarter note = 100, on Concert F.
If you can't hear the audio, listen to it here.
More Practice Patterns: Pickup measures of half a beat and one and a half beats, patterns 611-620
Practice Pattern Table of Contents
Lesson 6 Introduction to pickup notes
Lesson 6 Practice Suggestion on pickup notes
Play along with MetronomeBot
Buy the book, The Fundamentals of Rhythm.
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