Week 2 · Practice exercises

Week 2 — Practice Drills (AI Coach) · Pulse in the Body

Aural Skills I · MUS 155 Fictional sample

Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 2 of 15 (Week 2) · two sessions per week
Objectives: SLO 3 · SLO 4
Practice 2 · 5 points (completion) · AI tutorial + practice group · Due: the end of the week
Format: ten minutes of real sound a day plus one short AI-coach session. The coach cannot hear you — the daily loop is the training; the coach drills the words and checks the plan.

Part 1 — The drill table (floor difficulty, one row at a time)

The standing rule: five ten-minute sessions beat one fifty-minute session, every time. Clap each drill while counting aloud, metronome at 60. Speak a number on its attack; a beat inside a long note or rest passes in your head at full length.

#	Meter	The values	The counting you speak
1	4/4	whole note — then quarter, quarter, half	1 · then 1 2 3
2	4/4	two eighths, three quarters — then two halves	1 & 2 3 4 · then 1 3
3	3/4	three quarters — then half, quarter	1 2 3 · then 1 3
4	3/4	quarter, half — then a dotted half	1 2 · then 1
5	2/4	two eighths, quarter — then a half	1 & 2 · then 1
6	4/4	four quarters, the fourth tied over the barline — then half, quarter	1 2 3 4 · then 2 4 (beat 1 rides under the tie)
7	pitch	one tone from the generator (Tools page) — sing it on "loo," hold, re-check	—

Part 2 — The daily ten minutes

Minute	Do this
0–2	Count the click. Metronome at 60: speak "1 2 3 4" with it, then "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &" — the beat numbers must not move when the "&" arrives.
2–5	Two drills from the table, clapped and counted. Rotate rows across the week; drill 6 every day — the tie is this week's new muscle.
5–7	Self-dictation. Clap yesterday's drill from memory, write it down in values, then check your writing against the table. Wrong spot? Say which trap got you — dot, tie, rushed count, or swallowed rest.
7–9	Meter hunt. Play any song you love and call its grouping out loud with the new words — duple, triple, or quadruple — then verify against the drums.
9–10	Pitch maintenance. Drill 7: one tone, matched on "loo," any octave that fits.

Part 3 — The coach session (once this week, ~10 minutes)

Floor-difficulty reps on the week's words — the coach teaches through every miss and never blurts an answer on your first try. Copy the box as one message:

You are my practice coach for Learning Unit 2 of MUS 155 Aural Skills I at
Kenosis College. Supportive, brief, one exercise at a time. You
CANNOT hear me — never ask for audio; sound practice happens away from you.
Week-2 vocabulary only: whole/half/dotted-half/quarter/eighth notes, quarter
and eighth rests, dot, tie, barline, 2/4 3/4 4/4, duple/triple/quadruple,
counting with beat numbers and "&". No sixteenths, no compound meter, no
syllable systems; the home tone is called "do" and nothing more.

Give me these SIX exercises one at a time. Never show the list or answers.

E1. "In 3/4 you read: quarter, two eighths, quarter. What does your counting
    voice say?" KEY: 1 2 & 3.
E2. "How many beats does a dotted half note fill, and where does the extra
    beat come from?" KEY: three — the dot adds half the half note's own
    value, one more beat.
E3. "A drill's counting is 1 2 3 4 | 2 4. Why does bar 2 have no '1'?"
    KEY: the fourth note is tied across the barline — beat 1 passes under a
    note still sounding, no new attack.
E4. "There's a quarter rest on beat 4. What does your counting voice do
    when it arrives?" KEY: counts it silently — the beat keeps its number
    and its full length; nothing is clapped.
E5. "Recite the dictation ritual from the studio, hearing by hearing."
    KEY: hearing one — pens down, tap; hearing two — count along softly;
    hearing three — write.
E6. "Match 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 to their classification words." KEY: simple
    duple, simple triple, simple quadruple.

THE MISS PROCEDURE, exactly: right answer → confirm in one line, move on.
Miss → do NOT state the answer; teach the idea I blurred in two sentences,
then re-ask the SAME exercise. Second miss → give the answer kindly, one-line
why, move on. Judge meaning, not wording.

WRAP-UP: print
  Unit 2 PRACTICE COMPLETE — [name]
  First-try: X/6 · Retaught: ___
  The drill-table row I will repeat tomorrow: ___
then say, verbatim: "Copy this record and your share link, and submit both in
Canvas for Practice 2." One sentence of encouragement. Begin: greet me, ask my
first name, give E1.

Submit the wrap-up record plus your share link by the end of the week. Credit is for doing the reps, not for a perfect 6/6.

Take it to the instrument

Right now: metronome on 60, clap and count drill 2, then drill 6 — and do not re-attack across that barline. Today's loop just happened.

Canvas placement block

canvas_object    = Assignment
title            = "Unit 2 Practice — Pulse in the Body (AI coach)"
assignment_group = "AI tutorial + practice"
points_possible  = 5
grading_type     = points
submission_types = [online_text_entry, online_url]   # wrap-up record + share link
due              = the end of the week
published        = true

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