Welcome to the Conductor’s Podcast Summer Mini Series!
Hi there! Welcome to the Conductor’s Podcast Summer mini series. During the month of July, we are taking a break from the usual interview conversations. Instead, I will be sharing some tips on different aspects of a conductor’s job with you every week.
In today’s episode, I will be talking about how to improve my conducting!
This is the question that I got asked a lot, and in today's episode I will be sharing some tips that were given to me, and also some that have worked well for myself in these areas:
CONDUCTING TECHNIQUES
- Develop a variety of gestures
- Use videos to get used to a delayed sound
- Eye contact
- Posture
SCORE STUDY
- Use a piano reduction to learn the harmony and structure
- Follow melody, bass line, and instrument entrances first
- Have a set of steps that you go through
- Mark your score for two purposes: to study the music, and to use during performance / rehearsals
REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES
- Watch your own videos
- Study your score thoroughly - note where might be problematic and need rehearsals
- Write down different ways of rehearsing the same thing
- Watch rehearsal footage, or go to rehearsals
- When in rehearsal, split your mind - what you are hearing v.s. What you are doing
Best way to practice: having an ensemble that you constantly work with!
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