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Now you’ll take your “rhythm copying” skills and use them on your instrument (whichever instrument you are playing). To find the note you might need some help from your teacher. But if you’re doing this course at home, you might need to use a tutorial book or the internet to find out how to play your note. Click the triangle below to find the note name.
Finding the note
For instruments at concert pitch (like a guitar, flute, ukulele, or piano) it is the note F.
For B flat instruments (like clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophones, and lots of brass instruments) your note is a G.
And for E flat instruments (like alto saxophone and brass instruments like the tenor horn), your note is a D.
Have a listen to to Andy play his rhythms on the piano, and James copies them back.
Now it’s your turn! Play along with the “Example 2” video above – listen to Andy play his phrase, and see if you can play along with James as he copies it: