Chords for How to Conduct Music in 3/4 Time
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[F] Hello, [G] this is Michelle Willis with Teton Music.
over the 3-4 beat pattern,
[N] which we learned was,
You can mirror me doing that if you want
When we do the 3-4 pattern, we use more of a triangle formation.
go down, out, and up.
go out.
out, up.
over the 3-4 beat pattern,
[N] which we learned was,
You can mirror me doing that if you want
When we do the 3-4 pattern, we use more of a triangle formation.
go down, out, and up.
go out.
out, up.
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_ _ [F] Hello, [G] this is Michelle Willis with Teton Music.
[C] Today we're going to go over the 3-4 beat pattern,
which goes with the 3-4 time signature.
Last time I went over the 4-4 pattern, [N] which we learned was,
starting at the top of the head, down, over, out, and up.
You can mirror me doing that if you want
to.
Down, over, out, and up.
When we do the 3-4 pattern, we use more of a triangle formation.
So
again, we start at the top of the head.
We go down, out, and up.
So we don't do the one where
we go into the body, we just go out.
Down, and up.
Try that with me.
Down, out, up.
Let's do it
two more times.
Down, out, up, down, out.
The 3-4 time signature is great when you're doing things
are more lullaby in effect.
So lullabies, waltzes, things like that.
In church singing, we most often
use the 3-4 beat pattern, but if you're in other types of music, you may have to go into one if
it's really fast.
For example, I'm conducting Peter Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, and the
movement five is a waltz, which is really quick.
_ _ _ _ _ _ There's no way I could do that this fast.
I would
tire out, and I would have a hard time keeping a consistent tempo.
So in that case, I use one,
and it's a circular motion.
You go down towards the bottom and back up, and you feel the ictus
down at the 1.
1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
Try that with me.
1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
But for this video,
because we're working with hymns, we'll only be doing the triangle formation of the 3-4 pattern.
So what we're going to do, I'm going to use Praise to the Lord the Almighty, and it's one of my
favorite hymns.
In fact, I've arranged it, so if you wanted to see what that's like, you can go to
titanmusic.com and look up Praise to the Lord the Almighty.
It's a great a cappella version for choir.
So with this one, we don't have any pickup notes or what we call anacrusis, so we just get to start
right on beat 1.
So I'll show you everything with my right hand, and then I'll have you mirror me,
and I'll use my left hand.
So again, when we start a piece, we always have to give the gesture of
preparation.
So since we're starting on beat 1, that means our gesture of preparation will be on
beat 3.
So we'll go up for the breath, and then we sing.
So up for the breath, and sing.
Try that
with me.
Up for the breath, and sing.
One more time.
Up for the breath, and sing.
Now for this,
I'm looking in the music, I don't see anything unusual.
There's no fermatas, there's no retards,
anything I have to worry about.
The biggest part is you need to be aware of what all your voices
are doing.
For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 measures in, you have your sopranos that are holding a dotted
half note, but everyone else is moving.
So I don't really have the option to just hold on beat 1,
because I need to be able to move the other voices.
So if everybody's holding, for example,
at beats, at measure 6, then you can just do one single thing and hold, but with everything else,
there's a lot of motion going on.
So if there's motion, then you need to make sure that you stay
in motion.
Okay, so I'm going to go through the whole piece, doing it with my right hand,
and then let's go through it together with, and you can mirror me.
Here we go.
So gesture
preparation.
_ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation.
_ Oh my soul, praise Him,
for He is the health and _ salvation.
Join the great throng, _ psaltery, organ, and song,
_ sounding in glad _ adoration.
_ Okay, let's do that together.
You mirror me.
Here we go,
gesture preparation.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation.
_ Oh my soul,
praise Him, for He is the health and salvation.
Join the great throng, psaltery, organ, and song,
sounding in glad adoration.
_ Pretty easy.
The hymn that we're going to do now is Precious Savior,
Dear Redeemer.
This one is also in 3-4 time, but we have two pickup notes now.
We have a dotted
eighth note and a sixteenth note.
So it's all taking place in one beat, which we'll use that,
just one beat coming in.
And then at the bottom, two staves, we have a fermata on the third line,
and we have a fermata on the fourth line that we need to pay attention to.
So let's first go over
how to do the gesture preparation and where to do the pickup.
So because the pickup notes on beat
three, we're going to sing here.
That means you need to give beat two as the gesture of preparation.
So we just finished one.
So here's where we breathe.
Breathe, sing.
Try that again.
Breathe,
sing.
Now I'll use my other hand.
Breathe, sing.
One more time.
Breathe.
Okay, so let's get that
started.
So I'm going to breathe.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
Try that with me. _
Precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
And then it's going to go along just like normal.
And then we're going to get
to the third line where it says, turning back the sinful tide.
So this one, you have a moving note
because you have tide and you have to hold that.
Okay, so I'm going to start at turning back and
show you how I'm going to do that.
_ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ Watch again. _ _ _ _ _
Turning back the
sinful tide.
_ Okay, let's try that together.
_ _ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ One more time.
_ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ Then we go down to the bottom and then we have precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
And there is a comma, which means we're going to take a breath.
So we're just going
to travel on beat two and then cut off.
So I'm going to go a little lower.
I don't want to get
too high.
_ Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ _ May each soul in thee abide.
Let's try that together.
We
have that pickup, so breathe on two. _
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ _ May each soul in thee abide.
_ Okay, I'm going to direct the whole thing with my dominant hand and then you can mirror me as we go
back through again.
Just your preparation. _
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
Thy sweet message now impart.
May thy spirit, pure and fervid, enter every timid heart.
Carry there the swift conviction,
turning back the sinful _ tide.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
May each soul in thee abide.
_ Okay, now let's do it with, I will do my left hand and you mirror me.
Breathe first.
Precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
Thy sweet message now impart.
May thy spirit, pure and fervid, enter every timid heart.
Carry there the swift conviction, turning back the sinful tide.
_ Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ May each soul in thee abide. _
_ With this song in particular, make sure that your congregation is
making sure that they sing the rhythms accurately.
Sometimes it sounds like they're singing a
triplet.
_ _ But it's actually 16th, so it's very angular.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
That's one thing you can make [C] sure and have your congregation do [F] really clearly.
Thank you [G] so much for joining me.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[C] Today we're going to go over the 3-4 beat pattern,
which goes with the 3-4 time signature.
Last time I went over the 4-4 pattern, [N] which we learned was,
starting at the top of the head, down, over, out, and up.
You can mirror me doing that if you want
to.
Down, over, out, and up.
When we do the 3-4 pattern, we use more of a triangle formation.
So
again, we start at the top of the head.
We go down, out, and up.
So we don't do the one where
we go into the body, we just go out.
Down, and up.
Try that with me.
Down, out, up.
Let's do it
two more times.
Down, out, up, down, out.
The 3-4 time signature is great when you're doing things
are more lullaby in effect.
So lullabies, waltzes, things like that.
In church singing, we most often
use the 3-4 beat pattern, but if you're in other types of music, you may have to go into one if
it's really fast.
For example, I'm conducting Peter Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, and the
movement five is a waltz, which is really quick.
_ _ _ _ _ _ There's no way I could do that this fast.
I would
tire out, and I would have a hard time keeping a consistent tempo.
So in that case, I use one,
and it's a circular motion.
You go down towards the bottom and back up, and you feel the ictus
down at the 1.
1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
Try that with me.
1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
But for this video,
because we're working with hymns, we'll only be doing the triangle formation of the 3-4 pattern.
So what we're going to do, I'm going to use Praise to the Lord the Almighty, and it's one of my
favorite hymns.
In fact, I've arranged it, so if you wanted to see what that's like, you can go to
titanmusic.com and look up Praise to the Lord the Almighty.
It's a great a cappella version for choir.
So with this one, we don't have any pickup notes or what we call anacrusis, so we just get to start
right on beat 1.
So I'll show you everything with my right hand, and then I'll have you mirror me,
and I'll use my left hand.
So again, when we start a piece, we always have to give the gesture of
preparation.
So since we're starting on beat 1, that means our gesture of preparation will be on
beat 3.
So we'll go up for the breath, and then we sing.
So up for the breath, and sing.
Try that
with me.
Up for the breath, and sing.
One more time.
Up for the breath, and sing.
Now for this,
I'm looking in the music, I don't see anything unusual.
There's no fermatas, there's no retards,
anything I have to worry about.
The biggest part is you need to be aware of what all your voices
are doing.
For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 measures in, you have your sopranos that are holding a dotted
half note, but everyone else is moving.
So I don't really have the option to just hold on beat 1,
because I need to be able to move the other voices.
So if everybody's holding, for example,
at beats, at measure 6, then you can just do one single thing and hold, but with everything else,
there's a lot of motion going on.
So if there's motion, then you need to make sure that you stay
in motion.
Okay, so I'm going to go through the whole piece, doing it with my right hand,
and then let's go through it together with, and you can mirror me.
Here we go.
So gesture
preparation.
_ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation.
_ Oh my soul, praise Him,
for He is the health and _ salvation.
Join the great throng, _ psaltery, organ, and song,
_ sounding in glad _ adoration.
_ Okay, let's do that together.
You mirror me.
Here we go,
gesture preparation.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation.
_ Oh my soul,
praise Him, for He is the health and salvation.
Join the great throng, psaltery, organ, and song,
sounding in glad adoration.
_ Pretty easy.
The hymn that we're going to do now is Precious Savior,
Dear Redeemer.
This one is also in 3-4 time, but we have two pickup notes now.
We have a dotted
eighth note and a sixteenth note.
So it's all taking place in one beat, which we'll use that,
just one beat coming in.
And then at the bottom, two staves, we have a fermata on the third line,
and we have a fermata on the fourth line that we need to pay attention to.
So let's first go over
how to do the gesture preparation and where to do the pickup.
So because the pickup notes on beat
three, we're going to sing here.
That means you need to give beat two as the gesture of preparation.
So we just finished one.
So here's where we breathe.
Breathe, sing.
Try that again.
Breathe,
sing.
Now I'll use my other hand.
Breathe, sing.
One more time.
Breathe.
Okay, so let's get that
started.
So I'm going to breathe.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
Try that with me. _
Precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
And then it's going to go along just like normal.
And then we're going to get
to the third line where it says, turning back the sinful tide.
So this one, you have a moving note
because you have tide and you have to hold that.
Okay, so I'm going to start at turning back and
show you how I'm going to do that.
_ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ Watch again. _ _ _ _ _
Turning back the
sinful tide.
_ Okay, let's try that together.
_ _ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ One more time.
_ Turning back the sinful tide.
_ Then we go down to the bottom and then we have precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
And there is a comma, which means we're going to take a breath.
So we're just going
to travel on beat two and then cut off.
So I'm going to go a little lower.
I don't want to get
too high.
_ Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ _ May each soul in thee abide.
Let's try that together.
We
have that pickup, so breathe on two. _
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ _ May each soul in thee abide.
_ Okay, I'm going to direct the whole thing with my dominant hand and then you can mirror me as we go
back through again.
Just your preparation. _
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
Thy sweet message now impart.
May thy spirit, pure and fervid, enter every timid heart.
Carry there the swift conviction,
turning back the sinful _ tide.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
May each soul in thee abide.
_ Okay, now let's do it with, I will do my left hand and you mirror me.
Breathe first.
Precious Savior,
dear Redeemer.
Thy sweet message now impart.
May thy spirit, pure and fervid, enter every timid heart.
Carry there the swift conviction, turning back the sinful tide.
_ Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
_ May each soul in thee abide. _
_ With this song in particular, make sure that your congregation is
making sure that they sing the rhythms accurately.
Sometimes it sounds like they're singing a
triplet.
_ _ But it's actually 16th, so it's very angular.
Precious Savior, dear Redeemer.
That's one thing you can make [C] sure and have your congregation do [F] really clearly.
Thank you [G] so much for joining me.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _