Undergraduate Choral Conducting Blog

I thought the lab on Friday was very helpful. I had gone in thinking I was much more prepeared than I perhaps should have thought, and it was a good reality check for me. I learned a lot about what I need to work on, much of which is the more basic things that I thought I had down better, like the beat pattern itself, let alone multi-tasking issues like independent hand movement.

The biggest impediment I found was, not surprisingly, my own nonverbal self-criticism. I've had issues with this since i can remember, so I ask your patience in the future while I continue trying to undo 21 years of auto-excoriation.

The major fixes for next week as i see it are basic coordination, especially with handling multiple parts, breathing with my mouth open, and not making faces at myself.