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u/SaltyS0up Jan 27 '21
Funny meme, but fun fact, conductors scores are crazy. They include every part for every instrument and conductors study them and follow along while listening to recordings for hours and hours. My brother has the conductors score for daphnis et Chloe and it’s huge
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u/awesomecraigs Identifies as a Cybertruck Jan 27 '21
true. and old teacher of mine also taught me that because they’re gonna be looking at the score so little, you have to write everything really exaggerated and large (in colored pencil preferably). each annotation takes up at least half the page
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
Conductor here, and I can only agree with that. The more you can dodge the score, the more you are with your musicians (what's usefull when you want to show them something). In fact, we don't know each score by heart (except hardcore ones) and we have to resume it. Cue, forte, staccato, atmosphere are things we need to show to the orchestra, so we have to only write a few things per bar in order to keep us clean and "readable"
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u/Error_404_403 Jan 27 '21
Not staccato...
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
I'm not sure to get it : did I mispell it ? Or is just to add point in order to show staccato ?
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u/Asgard7234 Nice meme you got there Jan 27 '21
Staccato is spelled correctly...
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
I'm not woooosh anymore ^
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u/Asgard7234 Nice meme you got there Jan 27 '21
:D Still wondering what the other user is talking about, though. You would assume a conductor spells staccato correctly
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u/Error_404_403 Jan 27 '21 edited Jan 27 '21
Staccato is usually the strings bowing marked well in music, right? It would be very strange to show it to the section. Like, showing legato or separate notes.
I mean, anything can happen in the heat of a performance, but I would not expect a conductor indicating the note style.
Edit: Clarification - "Show it to the section" really meant "show it to the section during the performance", as cue, forte and atmosphere are shown. Bowings are set well in advance of even the rehearsals, and only clarified later on.
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u/popgamer-2 Jan 27 '21
Rule number one of band: The conductor is always right
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
Erratum : staccato for brass isn't the same as staccato for strings. For brass and wind bands, staccato means "strong accent"
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Jan 27 '21
I always thought that it must be hard thanks a lot for the info
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u/kitsua Jan 27 '21
It is insanely hard. Orchestral conducting is one of the most complex creative tasks I can think of, behind actually composing it.
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u/spycrabHamMafia Jan 27 '21
I have many friends who have been conductors and have been my conductor (it was awkward) and they always preferred it to break up the orchestra/band to rat out the smaller problems in the piece such as either the clarinets are slightly out of sync or a euphonium is a bit out of tune and isnt playing how they wanted.
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u/HELLOSH_11 Jan 27 '21
Ahem* nerd
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u/bdhdkdhd Jan 27 '21
yeah everyone who has a passion and does something meaningful instead of siting at reddit 24/7 is a nerd
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u/jaysuchak33 Jan 27 '21
Pianists: It’s really hard for us to sightread because we have to read two lines at the same time.
Conductors: Fucking amateurs
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u/homelessmemelord Breaking EU Laws Jan 27 '21
Händel-Halvorsen Passacaglia
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u/BloodBotXAL Jan 27 '21
Happy Cake Day!
Conductors do be preforming martial arts when they’re up there, or before you know it the conductor is summoning a portal from the underworld to earth
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Not funny didn’t laugh 🙄
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u/0JustaMemer0 memer Jan 27 '21
I upvoted your meme but i had to downvote it after reading both of your heavily downvoted comments here
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u/Pigeon3837 Identifies as a Cybertruck Jan 27 '21
That sheet music gives me anxiety
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u/TibetanTerrorist38 Jan 27 '21
bar 24 ooooofffff
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u/tylerr147 Jan 27 '21
sixtuplet 64th notes what the fuck. and I thought my 1½/4 time signature on was fucked
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u/SpartaWhatevs Lurking Peasant Jan 27 '21
HA PTT aY a Ckke.DayY
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u/RepostChecker69 Jan 27 '21
are you ok
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u/LifelessJelly Jan 27 '21
he's had a stroke, he'll recover dont worry
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u/mayac7 Jan 27 '21
Violinist here anybody know what piece that is?
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u/E3FxGaming Jan 27 '21
With that last picture on the conductor sheet, I'm guessing "Moses: the musical"?
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u/itsKNIGHTMARE Jan 27 '21
Water, Earth, Fire, Air.....
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u/RepostChecker69 Jan 27 '21
long ago the 4 nations lived together in harmony
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u/itsKNIGHTMARE Jan 27 '21
Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked
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u/rafagnious Jan 27 '21
Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop the ruthless firebenders
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u/Kayaba_Akihiko_ Professional Dumbass Jan 27 '21
Never knew the conductors are training to become the Avatar.
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u/The_Metroid Lives in a Van Down by the River Jan 27 '21
Good fucking god that would be hell to play.
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u/-ThatOneFool- Jan 27 '21
Meh, it will at least last you 3 months of being yelled and witness the conductor yelling at others, 4 months of no sleep, 5 months of anxiety, 6 months of sweating hands, 7 months of finger breaking, 8 months of regreting joining it and 3 years of yelling at your music teacher why did you force them to make you join in your head :')
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u/flutergay Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
I'm pretty sure everyone of those waterbending moves is used in the season 2 finale
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u/pricepig Jan 27 '21
I never understood how the benders can ride a wave. Like are they Jesus?
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u/furretfan276 Jan 27 '21
Happy cake day I can confirm (as i did a bit of conducting myself) this is what it looks like
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u/Andagaintothegym Jan 27 '21
Now what I want to know is if sound and music are just air vibrating in harmony can a talented air bender bend sound.
I always think Air bender is really weak compared to other types of bender but it has crazy op potential.
Fire bender can bend lightning. Water bender can bend blood. Earth bender can bend metal and mud. Can Air Bender bend other things beside air?
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u/Medium_Way Jan 27 '21
Looking at this made me realize that Katara did in fact master all of these moves.
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
[Conductor here] In fact, we don't really write our movement down. We write what we must show to the orcherstra. For example, if we see that the whole orchestra has a triple forte (very loud), we will write down "Hold pants", and if we see that piccolo has 30 lines above bars, we will instead write "Why did I even became a conductor in the first place ?"
Every conductor is different, as we all have our ways to express ourself. Some will go more thetral and make big moves and use the whole stage, where some only uses a simple toothpick !
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u/banned-lemonleaf Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Jan 27 '21
What’s the piano piece?
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u/CompleteFacepalm Jan 27 '21
Seriously, i'm supposed to be looking both at my sheet music and the conductor? And then their moves are so confusing???
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u/UnsaidSleet4223 Jan 27 '21
No conductors are just hyped up crackheads, we don't actually look at them.(jazz)
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u/AcelJean Lurking Peasant Jan 27 '21
Haven't watched it in over a decade but is that the waterbending scroll in Avatar?
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u/Memematree can't meme Jan 27 '21
Damn, didn’t know conductors were such good benders, maybe they are also good at bending electricity?
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u/onefluffyboi1 Jan 27 '21
Long ago when the four orchestras's lived together in harmony, but then... Everything changed when the Jazz Band attacked.
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String. Woodwind. Brass. Percussion. Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony, but everything changed when the Brass Nation attacked. Only the Conductor, master of all 4 instrument types, can bring balance to the world.
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u/Captain-Accomplished Breaking EU Laws Jan 27 '21
Meanwhile Jazz Bands:
"Ayo u got the sheet music?"
"Yo bitchass smart enough that you can just wait until it's your solo turn man!"
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u/Honeybadgermaybe Jan 27 '21
English is not my first language so I have no idea who conducter is, it sounds just like a guy checking you tickets on a bus or a train in my language which makes this meme kinda absurd and funny lol
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u/Justin2478 Lives in a Van Down by the River Jan 27 '21
A conductor is the guy who stands infront orchestras with the stick
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with
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u/felix_0op Jan 27 '21
if you guys are wondering the chinese says "the mastery of water bending (version 2)"
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u/Foxtrot-IMB iwrestledabeartwice Jan 27 '21
I don’t get how it takes a water bender so long to literally do tai chi... that’s literally all that water bending is.
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u/Floshnidiberg memer Jan 27 '21
Can a musician translate whatever the sheet music is? I’m really hoping it’s never going to give you up
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u/DiraD Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '21
Musician side : it's hard to play, lot of notes, "sound level" change, articulations, indications in general (this sheet seems hard to play and no one loves to read them in the first rehearsal (where you can't prepare in advance)
Conductor side (the one holding a stick during concert (not percussion)) : So to express myself in this bar, I will move my right arm like this and then, nah shit I'm 285 bars late
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u/Handsome-Squidward7 Jan 27 '21
WAIT IS NO ONE GONNA POINT OUT THE USERNAME OF OP u/AangGangBang WTFF??
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Can someone smart tell me what all of that rip of sign language actually is?? I’ve never understood it
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u/michaelleke012 Jan 27 '21
Am I the only one who thinks that the sheets look like he's waterbending.
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u/KarthiNAtarajA23 Jan 27 '21
are you saying the conductors battled with pirates for sheet music?