Jesus, Lord and Savior

Give your students an opportunity to use the cut-time time signature in a performance setting with this Jesus, Lord and Savior easy trumpet quartet. The educational focus of Jesus, Lord and Savior is the cut-time time signature. We want our students to experience cut-time as a meter, not as a mathematical substitution for two-four time signature. We believe that students who perform such pieces, early in their development, grow to be more mature musicians. There is also the added benefit of breaking the studentsi minds out of the four-four trap. Once they are liberated from the ione beat quarter-notei, their minds are free to explore the fractal relationships between rhythmic values. In our system, cut-time is the trumpet studentis introduction to this liberation. We teach them cut-time first, which leads to learning about eighth-notes in four-four. Once they are liberated this way, their minds are more open to learning how to play in six-eight.