Weeks 3-4: timing and pitch · rhythm
Quarter and half-note reading
Count written quarter and half notes out loud.
Why this matters
Most beginner method books are full of quarter-and-half-note rhythms. Reading them is the bridge from ear to score: it's how you turn what you can clap into something you can play from a page.
What you should be able to do
Clap 12 one-measure patterns with correct note lengths and spoken counts.
Estimated focus time: 1.5h
How to practice this on your piano today
- Get a sheet of paper. Draw 4 measures of 4/4 time.
- Fill in mixed quarter and half notes (e.g., q q h | q h q | h h | q q q q).
- With a metronome at 60 BPM, clap and count out loud (1-2-3-4) for each measure.
- Speak each note's number on its onset; slip into a rest on the held half-note.
- Try writing your own measure and clapping it back the next day.
Interactive coming soon
Music notation rendering needs a library like VexFlow or ABCJS — that's a separate infra batch.