Wii Conductor Hero

lol they could have at least tried to look like they were conducting and not just have flailed their arms like retarded monkeys. :)

Of course it's not like real conducting any more than Guitar Hero is like playing a guitar, but just like guitar hero it's fun and engaging and can get kids very interested in music, and that's all good IMHO.

You are an idiot.

because that's really productive... Would you like to explain why? All I said was that I believe this gives a false impression of what conductors really do. Is there anything incorrect in saying that?

probably not, unless you're thinking about getting kids into music. Seeing as how there wouldn't be any useful feedback from a non-living orchestra, this is more of an "explore what interests you" thing than anything else.

This entirely abandons secondary and tertiary techniques (i.e. left hand conducting, facial expressions, and general body language), and it places far too much emphasis on the mere keeping of tempo. If this was the only role of a conductor, orchestras would have turned to click tracks long ago.

Oh really? It totally had us fooled there for a second, man! I mean, if you didn't point that out, we never would have figured out that this wasn't an accurate simulator, what with them using a fucking wiimote. Thanks, dude!

Firstly, I'm not a man; secondly, calm down. I was just pointing out the pitfalls of replacing actual conducting training with a Wii simulator (mainly in response to posts such as Wolveram's).

This isn't about training, this is about little kids having fun with a stupid remote control. What's it like to have aspergers that hard?

Somehow I don't see the people in this video as being "little kids".