Some Conducting Notes
- Exercises
- pickup beats
- crescendo and decrescendo
- left hand cuing, release fingers on beat
- beat within a box
- no passive expressions!
- different types of resistance
- practice beats with a metronome
- hear/feel tempo before starting
- gesture of syncopation
- mixed patterns
- leave left hand at your side unless you want the choir to respond to it
- first master your stance and beat pattern - then work to look like the music
- practice facial expressions
- cover mouth and chin
- narrow and widen eyebrows
- work on joy apprehension determination elation
- open or closed mouth
- Play with different seating arrangements
- control beats with thoughts/hearing
- keep every note alive
- bowing's - start at the end of the phrase and work backwards
- hit beats harder
- Learn music one line at a time
- Neil Zaslaw - read about orchestra
- pay attention to
- off string
- on string
- brush strokes
- bow distribution
- where on bow
- usually on the bottom half of the bow
- Study Haydn
- Always work from the Full Score so that you can understand the voice leading
- warm up
- tune chords,
- sing up out of the range and down below
- then ask them to sing the first pitch
- work dissonance
- zim ba be do ba dee ba di doo ba
- clap, snap, tap
- sing with chords tuning
- dont forget about consonants
- great singers focus on consonants
- watch mirroring - unnecessary
- talk slow
- give ideas time to sink in!
- Don't let students move past their weaknesses
- conduct music not beats
- 4 things Eph looks for
- theoretical
- historical
- technical
- spiriemotional
- timing is everything!
- Look at MENC
- sound travels in equally in all directions
- sing with all of what you have!
- Dont chew vowels
- Dynamics
- teach MF = natural volume
- Breath Support
- resisting exhalation
- Babies dont get horse - great breath control
- Pooch out stomach and pull up on stomach
- Always look for a four measure phrase
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