WHAT TIME IS IT???(Or, What Is Time?)

Kurt Gartner

Professor of Percussion

KSU Concert Band Clinic 2014

What We Will Cover

• Externalization/Internalization

• Sticking/Timing/Phrasing Relationships

• Rethinking the Metronome

• Counting and Playing Meters

• Mastering Tuplets and Hemiolas

• Part Marking

• Time and Space

Externalization/Internalization

Stickings and Timing

And now, reintroduce the click…

Phrasing - Metrical Accents

Understanding Meters

• Duple Meters: 2/4, 2/2, 4/4, 8/8, 6/8, 12/8, 6/4

• Triple Meters: 3/4, 3/2, 3/4, 3/8, 9/8

• Odd Meters: 5/8, 5/4, 7/8, 7/4, 11/16, 13/8

• Simple Meters: beats grouped in 2s

• Compound Meters: beats grouped in 3s

• Odd meters: combination(s) of groupings of 2 and 3

Counting Compound Meters

Tuplet: any grouping not inherent in the meter

Big Triplets Simplified

Crazy Tuplets

Hemiolas: groupings that imply other meters

Part Marking

• Counting

• Stickings (slur marks are handy)

• Metrical/agogic accents

• Groupings (vital in odd meters)

Space. . .

. . . The Final Frontier. . .

What does it mean for our playing?

Questions?

Kurt Gartner

Professor of Percussion

ksu.edu/music/percussion