Completing a bar
Worked example: a bar of 3/4
- A bar of holds 3 crotchets.
- A dotted crotchet and a quaver make 2.
- 1 is missing: a crotchet is the note that completes a bar.
Count in crotchets even in compound time: holds 3, 4 and a half, 6.
Quick check
How many crotchets does a bar of hold?
Upbeats, recapped
A melody may start with an upbeat, a short first bar. The last bar is short by the same amount: together they make one full bar.
Quick check
A tune in starts with a two-beat upbeat. How long, usually, is its last bar?
Remember
- What the bar holds, minus what is there.
- Upbeat plus last bar: one full bar.
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