Rhythm exercise 4-4s

Featured figure

Name	Symbols	Duration
One dotted eighth note rest, one sixteenth note		¾ of a beat, ¼ of a beat
x tied to a dotted eighth note, one sixteenth note		¾ of a beat, ¼ of a beat

Graphic
representation

This figure
compared
to the
master
figure

Usage
of this
figure

This secondary figure is well balanced since the silence at the start is long enough.
Its popularization, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, beats three primary figures.
The only note in this figure often serves as a short pick-up for the following phrase.

How to
perform
this
figure

A: Start by doing this rhythm, using the syllable "Ta".

B: Transform the first, second and third "Ta" into a "Tu".

C: Eliminate the "Tu".

The fourth

Mental
description

This exercise is written two different ways:
The first line uses ties and the second uses rests.

You may have to click the Play button twice
		Tempo 70 bpm		Tempo 90 bpm		Tempo 110 bpm

Count 1, 2, 3, 4, before you start

Try this exercise in double swing feel