How To Direct A Band of Inexperienced Players - #102

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at
0:18.7	podcast. Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast.
0:33.6	Today we're going to talk about how to direct a band of inexperienced players.
0:37.1	Do I have to go to conducting school for this, that kind of direction?
0:37.8	Or what are you talking about?
0:38.2	Oh, yeah.
0:34.2	I'm definitely going to recommend you go to conducting school. I actually need to, man. Have you ever tried to conduct? It's way harder than it looks. Well, that could be number one for us. You know, do not start waving your arms around in front of a bunch of inexperienced players if you don't know what you're doing. Okay, that's number one.
0:36.8	So this is, actually, let's listen to this. This is great.
0:37.3	This is another user question that we have in the audio format. players if you don't know what you're doing okay that's number one so this is
0:54.3	actually let's listen to this is great this is another user question that we have in the
0:57.5	audio format this is Patrick hey Peter and Adam my name is Patrick and I'm gonna
1:04.6	be a senior in high school this fall I'm doing an independent study in jazz
1:10.6	through school and part of that is including a new addition to our after-school jazz program that being a combo and my school has never really had a combo before and our jazz program has almost exclusively focused on big band stuff so a lot of students haven't really had a lot of experience with small group improvisation
1:32.5	and interplay and that kind of thing.
1:34.4	I'm really excited about directing this group and playing guitar in it.
1:38.2	And I was wondering if you guys might have some tips for directing a band or how to teach improvisation to some people that may not
1:50.7	really be familiar with the idea and just general stuff like that.
1:56.1	Anyway, I love the podcast.
1:58.4	I've been a listener for a few weeks now and have already gotten through pretty much all of the episode. So thanks a lot for the great advice and you'll hear it. All right. That's awesome, Patrick. So glad you're digging the podcast. And happy to hear that we have a bit of a high school fan base. I had no idea. That's great.
2:18.7	So, I don't know, man.
2:22.1	Like, you know, it sounds like this is kind of a two-headed question, right?
2:32.0	About one is about sort of how to lead a band and how to successfully kind of set up a band and maybe a set. And then the other is to how to engage and maybe help more inexperienced
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