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Write the counts 4: compound time
In every box, write the count where that note or rest starts, counting the eighths as Handout 45 does: 1 2 3 4 5 6 in 6/8, to 9 in 9/8, to 12 in 12/8. The big beats, the dotted quarters, land on 1, 4, 7 and 10. A sixteenth halfway between two counts is &. A note a tie runs into gets no box; rests go in parentheses, like (4). (Warm up with Exercise 27.)
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1 · 6/8: two big beats
- Line A0:13
- Line B0:13
- Line C0:13
- Line D0:13
2 · 9/8 and 12/8: three and four big beats
- Line E0:09
- Line F0:09
- Line G0:11
- Line H0:13
3 · Real music, with a pickup
- Line I0:15
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