Conducting Music with the One Beat Pattern

Conducting Music with the One Beat Pattern
Hello, my name is Duane Carter and, on behalf of Expert Village, I will be talking about band conducting. Okay, thus far, we've looked at the most used beat patterns. The two beat, three beat and the four beat. In fact, the four beat is often called common time, 4/4, because it is used most often. Now we're going to look at a beat pattern that is rarely used, but is used extensively, particularly in fast passages, that are too fast to beat out through the entire pattern. This is called the one beat pattern. The one beat pattern is used in place of the 2/4 beat, the two beat, where we're subdividing, one two, one two, one two, one and two and. Whereas, in the one beat pattern, we're actually putting that in like a cut time field, that is half that time. So we're doing it as a one two, one two, but the way it's written, it would come off as one and one and. So it would look like. It's like twice as fast as our two beat pattern would have been and it would sound like one and one and one and one and. one and one and. Very fast. The other time that's used is a 3/8 pattern. The 3/8 pattern is a triple meter and it would be, one two three, one two three, one two three. And usually, if that was done slowly, we would use our three beat pattern, one two three, one two three, one two three. Where each beat is an eighth note. But when it's used very fast, we would use our one beat pattern one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three. And that's our one beat pattern.