The duplet
Music and Dance · Grade 11 · about 40 minutes
Understand a duplet and how it fits into a compound beat.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Rhythm and pulse
- Simple and compound time
- Note values and their rests
- Dotted notes and the compound beat
- Grouping notes in 6/8 time
- Grouping notes in 9/8 time
- French rhythm names in compound time
- The duplet
- Duplets in 6/8 and 9/8
- Factors in creating a rhythmic pattern
- Repetition and symmetry in rhythm
- Composing a four bar rhythm in 6/8
- Composing a four bar rhythm in 9/8 with a duplet
- Recording, sharing and appraising rhythms
- Rhythm in compound time: revision