Music and Movement in 3
“Meters are “containers” for counted movement.”
The first meter we are going to dive into is 3. To count movement in 3, the beats in the phrase follow this pattern: 1…2…3…1…2…3…1…2…3 and so on. Every 3 beats equals a measure. If the meter is in 4, 4 beats will equal a measure. If the meter is in 9, every 9 beats equals a single measure. Knowing what a measure is, is not that important. In some movement techniques that use counts, measures can be described like, “ This phrase has seven 3’s on the right side and seven 3’s on the left.”, meaning 7 measures in the meter of 3 on the right and 7 measures in 3 on the left. Sometimes we will say, “This phrase is in 8’s”, and we will still be counting in 3’s…meaning 8 measures, with a meter of 3.