Video: Conducting Skills: Mixed Meter 3/4 to 4/4

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Classical pieces may shift time signature, which is known as a mixed meter. Learn about exercises to develop an expressive conducting style in this free conducting lesson video from an experienced conductor.

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On behalf of Expert Village, I will now show you some expressive conducting skills. I want to start with practicing what's called "mixed meter". Oftentimes in a piece of music, it will start with a time signature such as 4/4 and then later in the piece it could change into a new time signature, 3/4. So, we're going to practice doing the 4/4 pattern. Remember, it starts on our right hand side -- one, two, three, four -- and then we're going to be switching to 3/4 pattern, which starts on the left hand side. Beat one, one, two, three. So, let's practice doing two bars, or measures, of 4/4 time and then doing two bars of 3/4 time. And we'll repeat them as we can practice. Here are the two bars of 4/4. We're going to go into 3/4 simultaneously, so be ready. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. One, two three. Back again -- one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. To 3/4 -- one, two, three. One, two, three.

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Conducting Skills: Mixed Meter 3/4 to 4/4

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