Hold a dotted quarter for three eighth-note counts, then play the short note.
Play a hymn tune that depends on the dotted shape.
A dot adds half. That is the whole rule.
A dot adds half the note’s length: a dotted half lasts three quarter-note beats. A dotted quarter lasts three eighth notes; the next eighth fills the last half of beat two.
Clap “1-and-2-AND”, holding through the first three counts; then play.
Keep the same beat in all four bars; listen for long-short pairs in bars two and four.
Play: Ode to Joy — complete hymn melody
Chubb’s complete sixteen-bar hymn reading uses dotted endings and a low-D bridge. Keep one pulse through every phrase.