Rhythm Lesson 7

Dotted Quarter + Eighth: Long-Short

The dotted quarter borrows half of the next beat, making the classic "long-short" of anthems and marches. Hear it in 3/4 and 4/4.

Intermediate ~8 min dotted-quarter long-short

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rhythm recognition dotted rhythms
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