Foundation
Count through a musical rest
Whenyou reach a rest in your piece
Choose a passage with a rest. Keep its beat moving with a quiet tap or count while you stay silent, then enter on the written or heard beat. Play the passage again.
Start tiny
Count one silent beat and make the next sound.
Evidence grade CPractitioner method or editorial idea
ABRSM, Practical Musicianship syllabus, pp. 90–96. Read the source ↗ Documents echo, pulse, reading, expressive playing and improvisation tasks; adapted here as practice, not an exam or tested intervention.
Foundation: The load-bearing practices you return to. Build the base and keep it in play.
