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43.2Clap the group beginnings

For:

2+2+2+3

accent eighth notes:

1, 3, 5, 7

with the final group lasting three eighths.

Think:

SHORT | SHORT | SHORT | LONG

This is much easier than mentally thinking:

“I am in nine.”