Plane Awareness for Orchestra Conductor

Video Transcript

"The next thing I want to talk to you about is the Plane in Conducting. We're going to pretend that there's an invisible plane right up of my stand, like an invisible piece of glass. So whenever I show my beats, I never go below the plane, almost like how a mime pretends that there's a plane of glass when they're doing their stick that they can't push through. Similar thing with conducting, you never want to go below that plane. And if you do that, the orchestra will really be able to see clear beats and if, if you go through the plane; it's called "punching through the plane", where then, I don't know where the beat is. I'm not sure if the plane's here and the conductor goes down like this, I can't tell exactly where he wants me to play. So you always want to be aware of this invisible plane and you want to stay up of it."