Orchestra Conducting Fundamentals : Conducting Orchestra in 4/4 Time

[KennyZHarding]

Please take this video down. You need to work on your conducting.

[60RP]

Each orchestra worldwide would go for lunch after the first 10 sec with that guy

[einsamaberfrei]

Don't believe in all the comments. Technique is important. You need to learn to beat accurately before you want to be expressive. This video is NOT supposed to show you "How to become a maestro in 5 minutes." Well, his gesture is mechanical, but clear enough for a beginner to understand. 

[WilliamsFan221]

Beat 4 In Not In The Middle. Its At The Top: By The Head.

[MuddyCreates]

I think you should rename this video to EPIC CONDUCTING FAILS. Your gestures are rigid, awkward, unnatural, and lack musicality. Thumbs UP if you agree XD

[Johnathan9617]

Your amazingly gay

[less01]

it facinates me as a concert goer how everything in the wonderful world of music has a reason and technique its amazing :)

[Casablanca1939]

Just a hint from a novice.

Numbering the videos would have helped me a lot. I'm still trying to find the first one.

[NateMelo614]

I love watching these, because professionals never use big ictus'..its comical...

[zukavatar]

My only problem with this is that im watch you conduct it backwards. :|

[MillofPWN]

Its bad because you cant see any diffrent between 4 and 1!!!!!!!!!!

you dont need to take your hand so much up after 1,2,3 but only after 4

[Fwuzeem]

Man that 4/4 beat hasn't got much beat or impotence behind it. What about showing the differences between fast passages and slow passages? The key thing about conducting a beat is always make sure the players know when the upbeat and the downbeat are. Anyway, yeah, it's very crucial to know how to do all these things.

[facher83]

Upbeats aren't that important, and if anything, make the conducting more muddled. From a performance venue the upbeats are subdivided, not conducted. Can you image the same philosophy of needing upbeats being mutated into 4/4 time being conducted in 8/8 in a double time fashion? Unless it is necessary, it shouldn't be done.... this would be ONLY useful when conducting a group of non-musicians who have trouble counting 1 AND 2 AND

[Fwuzeem]

I don't think that being able to count makes you a musician really. You're right when it comes to larger orchestras with a well known piece of music, but in chamber music, especially baroque music, there needs to be an emphasis on the up-beat of the bar, not to give all the beats equal importance. Anyway, why are we discussing this? Keeping time the last thing a conductor has to worry about. It's rehearsing, encouraging and knowing the players that is key. Also the hand gestures of the left hand

[brandon20738]

So glad someone took the time to show how important this is