Conducting Technique

Articles to read:

Find a musical reason to improve the technique

Being told to play louder or softer is okay. Being told why is better.

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Going beyond the notes: Conducting with Expression

Want to go from being a human metronome to embodying all the emotions in the music? We need to know the music, and know ourselves.

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Learning Conducting from the Inside Out - Part 1: How & What To Observe

Improve your conducting while sitting in the ensemble as a player or singer? You bet you can! Here's how...

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What's holding you back? How one conducting lesson changed my life

What happens when you decide to ask a life-long hero for a conducting lesson on Zoom during a pandemic? Here's the story of how I met Benjamin Zander...

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Conducting Success in 2020: How to ditch old conducting habits, and make new ones

Do you have a bad conducting habit that's been annoying you for a long time? That thing that you remember once for 3 seconds when you're on the podium, then then next time you think of it is an hour later? Here's how to solve that problem, for good.

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Podcasts to listen to:

S2E5: Fostering Engagement with Questions, Conviction & Repetition

How do you know when to keep working at a passage or just move on? How do you balance your own interpretation vs. making space for the musicians' ideas? What's the role of non-verbal communication in effective rehearsals? What might we learn from taking more notice of what's going on in the room?

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S2E4: Plan, Reflect Adapt - How to Make Progress in Rehearsal

How can we set ourselves up to listen better in rehearsals? What can be planned in advance, and when do we need to adapt our plans? What tools can we use to make our rehearsals more efficient? What does good feedback for players look like, and how can we deliver it in a sensitive way? We tackle all these questions and more as we explore the nitty gritty of middle rehearsals.

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