Rhythmic dictation: ties, dotted rhythms, semiquavers and triplets

What this note covers

1. The rhythmic dictation question and what earns the marks
2. A four-hearing workflow that fixes the beat skeleton first
3. Ties across the beat and the bar line
4. Dotted rhythms: hearing long-short, short-long and even
5. Semiquaver groups and triplets in the same melody
6. Proving every bar adds up: the semiquaver-unit check
7. Practising dictation with and without a partner

7 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes