Legato & Staccato Orchestra Conducting

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In this clip we'll be talking about the differences between legato and staccato conducting and when you'll be expected to use those. In a lot of romantic music you'll be doing more legato, a lot of Tchaikovsky you'll be doing legato, a lot of, mainly legato lines in strings, a lot of string ensemble pieces, a lot of romantic themes, love songs, you know for the orchestra, like the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet you'll be using a lot of legato conducting. So in the legato situation you'll, you'll use the same pattern as any other time but you'll be instead of being real stiff, just to beat time out, you'll, you'll loosen up a little bit, you'll make more of a figure eight with your hand and everything will be just a lot smoother and you'll usually feel that in your players. When you start conducting legato, they'll start playing legato and if they're playing legato, they'll play more legato. And it'll just make things, you know, you'll phrase with your left hand and everything will get a lot smoother and hopefully that's the sound you're looking for. Now in marches, in pieces that are fast maybe or you need to keep the orchestra together even if it's not staccato playing, you'll want a beat a little bit more stiff. So like in a march a lot of times you'll be a lot more stiff with your right hand. You'll actually stop the movement when you get to the bottom, when you get to the, the bottom of the frame. You'll actually stop, so there's like, there's like a little square with your frame, with your pattern and you'll actually when you get to the bottom of or the side of the square on each side you'll actually stop. So you'll actually have like a pause before you move onto the next beat. So that's, that's more of a staccato you know, for like a march and and for when you want to keep the orchestra together you'll also be like that and it will make everyone okay, the conductor is beating you know, more intense and everyone will watch you and stay together a lot easier.

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