How to count measure rests in 12/8?

[Trombonium]

Ugh, I have a 12/8 part in my field show music, and I'm kind of confused on how to count the rests... Anybody have advice?

Measure rests, dotted half rests, etc.

[jazztastic]

12/8 is going to be conducted in 4 (that's what 99% of conductors including myself would do).
However, it's still going to have that triplet sub-grouping:

1-2-3 ....................1
4-5-6 ....................2
7-8-9 ....................3
10-11-12 ................4

The numbers after the ellipsis, these are going to be your steps, corresponding to the beats. (Sorry the spacing kept messing up so I had to type it like that...)

To try to think/play accurately, you need to be thinking triplet 8th notes and have that ticking in your head. It sounds hard but just try to match it up w/ what your conductor is doing and how the beats correspond to your music.

Hope that helps?
and how fast is it? If you give me the name of the piece I could look it up and offer some further insight.

[Trombonium]

Jun 24, 2009 19:32:30 GMT -5 jazztastic said:

12/8 is going to be conducted in 4 (that's what 99% of conductors including myself would do).
However, it's still going to have that triplet sub-grouping:

1-2-3 ....................1
4-5-6 ....................2
7-8-9 ....................3
10-11-12 ................4

The numbers after the ellipsis, these are going to be your steps, corresponding to the beats. (Sorry the spacing kept messing up so I had to type it like that...)

To try to think/play accurately, you need to be thinking triplet 8th notes and have that ticking in your head. It sounds hard but just try to match it up w/ what your conductor is doing and how the beats correspond to your music.

Hope that helps?
and how fast is it? If you give me the name of the piece I could look it up and offer some further insight.

The tempo is 136.

I'm not sure if you'll be able to find it, but the piece is called "Pyramids of Egypt".

[trumellotonium]

Yeah, you'll basically count in 4, and if you want to subdivide you can count "one-and-a-two-and-a-three-and-a-four-and-a..." instead of counting all the way to 12.

[jazztastic]

Ya, counting to 12 is a mouthful, I hope I didn't imply counting to 12 for every measure in my post haha....
No, I would count in 4 definitely, but have the triplets in my mind..
1 da da 2 da da 3 da da 4 da da... I do that when I'm bored, and there is no instrument to play nearby.