5/4 · standard
Dotted notes in 5/4
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dotted notes · 5/4NameDate
What is on this sheet
12 bars of 5/4, counted 2 + 3, 109 written values in all.
29 sounds are written as two notes joined by a tie, because the beat underneath has to stay visible.
9 rests — silence measured as exactly as the notes are.
A dot adds half again. The reading problem is not the dot, it is what has to follow it.
The same exercise in another metre
quarters and eighthsThe two values everything else is measured against, and nothing shorter.sixteenthsFour notes to a beat, and the beams that group them.ties across beatsOne sound written as two notes, because the beat underneath has to stay visible.restsSilence measured exactly, and grouped by the same beats the notes are.tripletsThree in the time of two, bracketed and numbered so the eye is told before the ear is.syncopationNotes that start between the beats. The exercise is keeping the beat where it was.