Hi! Apparently there is a new piece and the second violin part has a 52 bar rest! How are you supposed to count 52 bars and then play again? There are also some more extremely long bar rests like 35 bars and 26 bars…
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Ok so my band teacher taught me a trick. Each measure has 4 beats, so you count it like this
First measure of rest 1234 second 2234 third 3234 fourth 4234 fith 5234 you get the gist
It would be really annoying for how long you have to do it, so if you are playing with other people you can listen and see what they play right before you play again to know when to play (that’s what I always did)
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tysm!!!
So do you count up 10 52, 234 on the 52nd bar? and I am playing with other people, and I would do that if I lose count, but I think that others would lose track too…
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Um yeah it might be not good to do it when you have hundreds of rests. Something I also did is I figured out how many beats were in the rest in total, and just counted to that number. So you would multiply how many measures the rest is by how many beats are in a measure for your piece, and then add on any additional beats of rest that don’t take up a whole measure but are next to the bar of rests. (Sorry if that was confusing). Whatever that number is I usually write it on my physical copy of the song, but you might have to memorize it if you’re using a copy you can’t mark up. Instead of just counting the numbers in your head, you can tap your toe to the pace of the song(softly!) and count the taps to stay on beat. Sorry if that was confusing. You can also break up the rests when you count them. Say there are 40 measures of rests. You could count to 20, then count to 20 again
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Tysm!! I’ll try that when I get time
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@leaders please close this topic
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