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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:09 pm
They tried to explain it to me the said we would go 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 or something but that made no since. My guess is they were talking about how the DM is gonna conduct it
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:14 pm
At my school, we just do 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and keep doing that. (Like for every measure of music, we do 8 steps instead of 4)
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:18 pm
7/8 time is tricky. Normally, say in 3/4 time, you march the quarter notes, giving you three beats in a measure. 7/8 time, however, is based on 8ths notes (thus the 8 instead of 4 on the bottom) and there are 7 eighth notes in each measure. Usually, conductors will not conduct each beat of every 7/8 measure, and instead break it down into groups of 2 and 3. One of the ways to do that is 1 2 1 2 1 2 3.
What that means is the conductor/drum major is placing the emphasis on beats 1, 3, and 5. So, what that means is, for each measure, the conductor/drum major is visually telling you where beats 1, 3, and 5 of the 7 beat measure fall; the 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 corresponds to the 7 beats like this:
1 2 1 2 1 2 3 (next measure) 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 . . .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (next measure) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 . . .
The reason it was explained as 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 is because it's easier to say 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 than it is to say 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 for every measure, simply because "seven" has two syllables instead of one, and when the tempo gets really fast, it's hard to say "seven" and not be late for the next "one."
I hope this helps. =]
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:51 pm
Suisho Tomoe 7/8 time is tricky. Normally, say in 3/4 time, you march the quarter notes, giving you three beats in a measure. 7/8 time, however, is based on 8ths notes (thus the 8 instead of 4 on the bottom) and there are 7 eighth notes in each measure. Usually, conductors will not conduct each beat of every 7/8 measure, and instead break it down into groups of 2 and 3. One of the ways to do that is 1 2 1 2 1 2 3. What that means is the conductor/drum major is placing the emphasis on beats 1, 3, and 5. So, what that means is, for each measure, the conductor/drum major is visually telling you where beats 1, 3, and 5 of the 7 beat measure fall; the 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 corresponds to the 7 beats like this: 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 (next measure) 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (next measure) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 . . . The reason it was explained as 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 is because it's easier to say 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 than it is to say 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 for every measure, simply because "seven" has two syllables instead of one, and when the tempo gets really fast, it's hard to say "seven" and not be late for the next "one." I hope this helps. =] Ok that helped thanks
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:03 pm
Hopefully your drill writer will just put in a halt, because I'm guessing the steps during marching would be on 1, 3, and 5, so they would be of uneven amounts of time. We were gonna have some funky 5/8 time in our drum break last year, but I think it was rewritten so that didn't happen. Phew!
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:50 am
Our drill writer is actually our BD and since he wants to make our lives as hard as possible he'll either make us march or put an impossible visual there.
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:19 pm
well, idk how much help i can be since we're one of those bands that only competes in parade comps, but we had this tuba joke this year (a sousa got run over by the vice principal's kid in his truck) and so our homecoming halftime show was that funeral march for like 6 counts, then "money" by pink floyd or someone, which is in 7. we changed drill on that part, and what i did was just keep going and just worry about the tempo and not so much the count...(either that or i counted in 4s since it was 28 counts...probably not that would sound weird...) maybe that helped? then again, i'm just in guard and never saw the music so maybe it wasn't quite what you're talking about? whatever it was in 7 instead of 4...
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