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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by a string player

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you would have thought he'd be friends with a solo violinist.. Turns out he [Man playing violin with a friend]

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was a bit 'Cell-ous'... Plug in your headphones and crank up the volume

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because this questions based on an excerpt that will be played three times

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seriously plug in your headphones no one around you wants to hear this three times

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the scores printed correctly but in the version you'll hear there are errors

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either in pitch or rhythm...All we have to do here is identify the error so here we

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go....[music playing]

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Alrighty done listening great here's our question where is the error in measure

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10 and here are your potential answers.... Okay well measure 10

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kind of sounds like something we're supposed to vote on in the next election [Woman holding a board outside of congress]

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doesn't it? Vote no on measure 10 or do we want to vote yes and we can never [Woman holding a Yes and No sign]

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remember anyway we know there's problem with measure tens let's check out the

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rhythm first well in the first cello part we here to equal quarter notes [Quarter notes turn into quarter coins]

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which match with what's written in the score that means answer A is knocked out

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You know the first cello player really got off easy in this duet the second

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cello has to do all the hard work, reminds us a lot of Bob from accounting [Bob from accounting with a large stack of papers]

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poor intern. Anyway speaking of the second cello part it looks like the

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rhythm is correct in the example with all sixteenth notes present and [Sixteenth notes marked by numbers]

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accounted for so even though the sixteenth notes have perfect attendance

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answer B is still wrong. If shmoop teaches you one thing let it be this you'll never be

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rewarded for perfect attendance so always cut class... Our marketing

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team just sent a bunch of angry emails and then wonder why all right well now

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let's listen even closer checking the pitches of measure 10 scouts say his [Girl listening to music through headphones]

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fastball is good but his curveball is lights out all right well the first [People playing baseball]

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cello plays a G natural and an A natural then checks out with the score so that

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means answer C can be eliminated or how about the pitches in the second cello

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part well the second note which was played as a B-flat is not the same as

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the fourth note which is played as a B natural well it's excellent advice for [Boy telling a girl to act natural]

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a first date that we totally never follow. B-natural is not the correct note in

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the score that means that the error is the pitch in the second cello part which is

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answere D now, if you'll excuse us and we have a lot of angry emails to answer [E-mail icons appear all over the screen]

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kids stay in school really...

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