#7-Gesture of Syncopation:Conducting Tips w/ Michelle Willis

[capthook1]

@ ruskinmethodistmusic. Why the petty argument? If you look in the tags, it is stated "conducting basics" she's not explaining Babbitt, Bartok or Cater with metrical modulation- she's talking about basics. Geez, she does well for beginners. Look at the forest instead of only one tree or are you incapable of this sort of thought?

[sandswillis]

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter (pulse). Most professional musicians understand this to apply to musical genres like jazz and African rhythms, but college professors teach the GOS (guesture of syncopation) to help singers feel a hold-over of a rhythm, such as a dotted quarter note or dotted eighth note.

[RuskinMethodistMusic]

You need to look up the definition of syncopation. There is NOTHING syncopated in the Hallelujah Chorus . The presence of an eighth note DOES NOT make syncopation It is much more than that. You are simply helping to place the eighth notes, which is not even necessary if the singers/players are competent.

[yankmykee]

if you continued to the second half of the phrase, you could have demonstrated the GOS better (and of 1), and explained how a GOS is a gesture without a prep... if I didn't already know what a GOS was I would have had trouble understanding