Undergraduate Choral Conducting Blog

I was generally pleased with how things turned out for me on Friday, although I did forget to incorporate one of the categories - oops. Interesting how people did not notice this until I revealed my misunderstanding (I thought of the "rolling stop" and the "ignores" as the same thing.) It wasn't until after I sat down did I realize that, if my gesture of what I thought was "breezing though" a fermata worked for a "rolling stop" fermata, I should have just kept with that kind of gesture. If I remember correctly, I pointed forward with my left hand (to keep the sustain) and kept time in my right hand. If I did the same thing, but slowed down the last beat's motion, I think that would count as a "roller." I'm glad I practiced it the other way too. I would like to master the up, over, and down method of conducting the "rollers." The exercise Kristin did over her head seemed to help a lot - I'll have to try that out myself. I was pleased that I got the out of the fermata on beat 2 appropriately with a rebound in the opposite direction of beat three when I was ready to go on.

...and of course, I need to work on evening out my gesture to maintain a consistent tempo on ALL the beats.

Thanks for allowing me to do those few measures over and over and over and over. It really helped me out.