Week 3 · 12 min
Read the pickup in Pavana
By the end, you can connect a two-beat pickup to the four beats of the next bar.
Before this lesson
Lesson steps
1 Reading 3, two bars
Read both bars, keeping the pulse after the rest.
3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click
Check for · 2 bars at 52 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.
More detail
Locate strings 3 and 2 before starting. The final bar combines a rest, two eighths and a final quarter.
2 Four pickup eighths
Repeat just the pickup bar twice, counting “three and four and”.
3 min · 40 bpm · 2 notes per click
Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — each repetition of the pickup fits four eighth notes into two beats.
More detail
The practice tab writes the pickup alone as two beats. The following full bar has four.
3 From pickup to full bar
Connect the pickup to the full bar of Pavana without adding a click.
3 min · 40 bpm · 2 notes per click
Revisit the tablature · Step 2
Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — The first two beats lead into four more, giving six clicks per pass.
More detail
This reading excerpt isolates the main notes of the upper voice. The piece page includes the ornaments and bass.
4 From pickup to full bar
Connect the pickup to the full bar of Pavana without adding a click.
3 min · 44 bpm · 2 notes per click
Revisit the tablature · Step 2
Check for · 2 bars at 52 BPM — The first two beats lead into four more, giving six clicks per pass.
More detail
This reading excerpt isolates the main notes of the upper voice. The piece page includes the ornaments and bass.
You can move on when…
You pass when, over 2 bars at 52 BPM, the first two beats lead into four more, giving six clicks per pass.
If a movement feels difficult
I treat every 1 as a string number.
Find the line before reading the fret number.
I give each eighth note a whole click.
Speak both halves of the beat before playing bar 2 again.