Author: BartHx
Date: 2016-06-05 20:37
Ken's suggestion is an excellent one. A high proportion of established musicians tend to view marching band as a necessary evil to be avoided if possible. There is a reason there are so few (if any) "professional" marching bands outside the military. However, at least in this country, they are relatively common in schools that have been fortunate enough to be able to maintain a strong music program. When the jobs are clearly subdivided into maintaining the beat at one end of your body and playing the rhythm at the other end, it can be very helpful in learning to fit the rhythm cleanly around the beat.
Obviously, a 3/4 measure will contain three and only three beats and a quarter note will have the equivalent length of one beat. If the measure starts with an eighth note, the next note or series of notes will have to start on the up beat. If you don't have the basic three beats firmly established in your mind, that can cause confusion. If the measure also ended in an eighth note, there would be two and only two beat lengths between the two eighth notes. However, being based on the up beat (or off beat) it may seem longer to the untrained ear. There are many ways those two beat lengths could be divided but, using quarter notes and eighth notes the measure you describe would sound |dit/da-da/dit|. it would be counted evenly as |one/and-two-and-three/and|. If the passage is in 3/4 time, starts and ends with an eighth note, and has 2 1/2 beats between, the second eighth note would have to come on the first beat of the next measure.
There are, in fact, markings that can indicate an increase or decrease in the beat speed within a measure or group of measures or as little as a single measure could be given a different time signature. However, until you can get the rhythm wrapped cleanly around a uniform beat, going into them here would only cause confusion and, likely, inappropriate use. I think Ken's suggestion of making the passage whole body physical is going to be your best starting point. I am sure there are also many books available that can show you graphically how to accomplish and/or play a particular rhythm pattern. Good luck and don't give up. Music has all the variability of any other language.
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