Wolf is right about conductors being the most trained person in the orchestra and it’s not even close either. Also, conductors have like insane hand eye coordination
F'real, when I was a kid in high-school band, I got an opportunity to be I forget what they call it, but essentially student conductor and I was like "hell nah man!"- considering some of the most talented band members even failed at even doing an ok job.
I've been curious: what's their use? Isn't every information he's conveying already on the music sheet? When to play, when to hold notes, go higher or lower etc?
@@NonisLuck not that I have any conductor experience and really only have junior high band experience which was 20ish years ago but imagine taking 20+ people and telling them to count to 30 in their head. everyone would quickly get out of sync. when I was in band we would tap our feet in rhythm with the conductor and that would keep the band in sync with each other.
@@NonisLuckconductors are like an artist, while well trained instrumentalists/vocalists are the paints, and the sheet music is a painting the conductor uses as a reference (how closely they follow the reference is up to the conductor). The conductor brings a level of cohesion to the performance. They set the tempo and energy. Some instruments may stick out too much normally, while others may be too quiet. Heck that could even be what the music calls for! However, the conductor has the final say; ‘brass, this section needs to be softer.’ ‘Strings, the music says to connect these notes together, but I want staccato.’ At early learning levels, conductors are there to mostly help the band to only keep rhythm, but as the conductor and the players become more experienced, that’s when it basically becomes a megazord of music! With the conductor as the head. Hope that answers your question! I love music, and I really appreciate good conductors.
I was once the president of my choir class in high school, and whenever the teacher was gone, I was conducting. I say this with the utmost enthusiasm and encouragement - you need more oomph! More flourish! Flick your wrist, snap your hand closed, really "enunciate" your movements! But also remain graceful and classy.
16:40 Crescendo and decrescendo don't mean high and low notes. They are the path to louder (forte) notes, and softer (piano) notes. With fortissimo being the loudest, and pianissimo being the quietest. Usually in a sheet they are marked by a line going up or down, depending on where the music goes, but they can happen insantly, which is indicated by the corresponding lettter(s), which can usually be also found at the start of each part of the music, indicating it's loudness. But they aren't required most of the time. pp pianissimo, p piano, mp mezzopiano, mf mezzoforte, f forte, ff fortissimo (from quietest to loudest)
there is such a thing as forte fortissimo and piano pianissimo (fff and ppp respectively) which mean as loud and or as quiet as possible with a solid tone(fff with an accent is crazy on the trombone), as well as some other special dynamics that I'm curios to how the game will pull off like fmp which means land on the note at forte and then fall to mezzopiano. just wanted to add on a little extra info!
I'm impressed how much personality they put into this early alpha, it could've just been a tutorial and a few songs, they didn't need voice acting at all (but it makes a difference). I also enjoyed the 'royalty free' version of Swing Swing, that first Jazz song which was just a very slightly modified version of a real song Also, as a drummer I liked how quickly it 'tricked' you into doing independent limb movements, and almost all of it seems basically synonymous with drumming, all about timing and limb independence This looks really fun
Verdi’s Dies Irae as your first concert, on your first day as a conductor… blooming heck, that’s tough! Excellent review and very funny commentary. Great video.
It's something that you learn as a musician, even if you thought classical music was boring before, but the act of actually performing it with a group coordinating together and being guided by someone with a vision... Suddenly it just elevates everything. Notice how you would probably never listen to that last song before, but you were really getting into it when you were in the driver's seat ;3
8:06 this MAKES it look easy but if isn’t as when you’re looking at the conductors score you have roughly 20 lines of music on 1 page and you need to know where each instrument comes in and if they’re playing the correct rhythm! (I’ve been playing in Brass Bands for near enough a decade and when I look at conductors scores I marvel!)
Admit it, Wolf. You've done some conducting before, at least in music lessons in school. The way you kind of naturally beat a 4/4 pattern when only asked to hit the accents gives it away. ;-) And yes, conducting a real orchestra (well) is extremely hard. And it's usually not about just keeping a tempo and giving musical cues, but mostly about very precise hearing during rehearsal and getting the musicians to perform the piece as you want in the actual concert. Luckily, in this app, the musicians actually play fairly flawlessly already, so you're simply conducting the most amazing orchestra in the world. A virtual one.
I never got around to playing this with a quest 2 because the hand tracking was pretty rough when this demo first came out, especially in a dark room. I should really give it a try with a quest 3 now. It looks satisfying for sure.
I get the feeling that Wolf is excited about this. Off to try the demo! EDIT - I don't suppose you know any conductors Wolf. Would be amazing to see a conductor play this.
I took some conducting classes for my music degree so I could give feedback. Finding only conductors is hard because all classical composers learn to conduct but as a profession those are held by the few professionals cuz they are stationary jobs like 20+ years. Two famous conductors are Leonard Bernstein and Gustavo Dudamel.
I randomly saw Maestro VR in the top 50 VR games on Steam sales.. and I was like this game in this video is a far better state from what it looks like on Steam.. Turns out there is "Maestro VR" and "Maestro", Maestro being this game and it's far superior and I think people are mistaking the two games as "Maestro VR" is already out and "Maestro" is "Coming Soon" on Steam..
The maestro mini game on Wii Music was one of my favorite mini games in that game! I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star sooo many times to get a perfect score, and my friends and I would huddle up and move our remotes at the same time to try and get a better score lol.
Conducting your hand is almost always in 4/4 which starts on a down stroke, then a swing to the left at the middle of your compass esk imaginary chart, then swing to the right, and then to the top and then back to the bottom. The bottom, left, right, and the up refers to the 4 notes in a measure. If you hear that background beat, everytime it sounds it usually going to be the 1st beat of the measure. You know it's the first beat because you don't need 4 beats when the musicians already are more focused on their music at that point, and just need markings as to when the 1st measure is. You are counting consistently the entire time to follow the conductor. Music can happen without a conductor though I imagine it will start to loose both tempo (the speed in which you are playing at consistently and unchanging until you are required to change), and rhythm and togetherness of the band. Often times, a composer conducts so that people in the back play at the same time, since sound will have a travel length, and you may hear the front instruments slightly after the beat 1 motion (beginning of a mesure) of the conductor, so when the back of the orchestra tries to match up with the front, WITHOUT a conductor, the front will hear the them playing late. The audience however hears everything at the same time because of their much further distance away; much like how Mercury orbits the sun slightly faster than Venus, but Neptune will be infinitely slower and wouldn't have any correlation to speeds that both seem the same to it. Conductors will call all four of those beats because it's easy for them to do and doesn't disturpt the music. It is a silent metronome, and a metronome is the constant 4 beat ticks in a measure, where you can start on any tick and then count from there. Music is pure art that people think is really easy and can just hop into at any time. No.
Hope you're gonna be able to play Tjajkovskij in the full game! XD "Tjajkovskij, canons are not instruments!" "Yes they are, and I'm going to use 21 of them!" "Tjajkovskij, no!" "Tjajkovskij, yes!"
I'm no classical fanatical but I swear there are days where I sincerely could buy a vr headseat and decent pc jsut to play this and be able to orhcestrate Shehezarade of Rimsky and Korsakov. Is there a way to conduct custom songs?
Okay, I'm confused but this is what I think is going on: What you showed in this video was a free Quest app called "Maestro: The Masterclass". The full game, when it releases, will be called "Maestro" and will be available for Quest and on Steam (didn't look for other options). Steam has another game that is released called "Maestro VR" which is fairly different from what you've shown. You might want to make it a little clearer what it is you are showing or, if I'm totally off base here, you can correct me.
HAY Wolf. You will be shocked. If you have a psvr 2. There is a wanderer 2 in a way coming out on the PS5. It's a reimagined wanderer. Better! I forgot the hold date but I do know the month is June
also, also I'm convinced now that being a conductor is the closest thing to being a wizard. but maybe the OG Fantasia is influencing my opinion on that.
To correct mistakes did someone say? Jesus, it's how loud or soft you play in a gradual procession. If he listened to anything the teacher was saying, he's start to grasp the concepts of what is happening. I've never seen any hobby where someone looks like such a dopey fool when they come into it acting like they know things and yet know nothing.
*rubs chin* Uhh, Wolf...question, couldn't you have pointed with your right hand just as well as your left? Probably woulda hit some of those right points on time if you didn't try to hit them with your left.
Omfg, that was sing sing sing with a swing.... but they couldn't afford the rights so thaye need to do the whole only 70% of the song can be the song to avoid a copyright infringement
Wolf is right about conductors being the most trained person in the orchestra and it’s not even close either. Also, conductors have like insane hand eye coordination
F'real, when I was a kid in high-school band, I got an opportunity to be I forget what they call it, but essentially student conductor and I was like "hell nah man!"- considering some of the most talented band members even failed at even doing an ok job.
I've been curious: what's their use? Isn't every information he's conveying already on the music sheet? When to play, when to hold notes, go higher or lower etc?
@@NonisLuck not that I have any conductor experience and really only have junior high band experience which was 20ish years ago but imagine taking 20+ people and telling them to count to 30 in their head. everyone would quickly get out of sync.
when I was in band we would tap our feet in rhythm with the conductor and that would keep the band in sync with each other.
@@NonisLuckconductors are like an artist, while well trained instrumentalists/vocalists are the paints, and the sheet music is a painting the conductor uses as a reference (how closely they follow the reference is up to the conductor). The conductor brings a level of cohesion to the performance. They set the tempo and energy. Some instruments may stick out too much normally, while others may be too quiet. Heck that could even be what the music calls for! However, the conductor has the final say; ‘brass, this section needs to be softer.’ ‘Strings, the music says to connect these notes together, but I want staccato.’
At early learning levels, conductors are there to mostly help the band to only keep rhythm, but as the conductor and the players become more experienced, that’s when it basically becomes a megazord of music! With the conductor as the head.
Hope that answers your question! I love music, and I really appreciate good conductors.
@@luciusliu9417Drum Major?
"You're not very good, turn that solo down" 😂 that's exactly how it goes in an orchestra
I was once the president of my choir class in high school, and whenever the teacher was gone, I was conducting. I say this with the utmost enthusiasm and encouragement - you need more oomph! More flourish! Flick your wrist, snap your hand closed, really "enunciate" your movements! But also remain graceful and classy.
16:40
Crescendo and decrescendo don't mean high and low notes. They are the path to louder (forte) notes, and softer (piano) notes. With fortissimo being the loudest, and pianissimo being the quietest. Usually in a sheet they are marked by a line going up or down, depending on where the music goes, but they can happen insantly, which is indicated by the corresponding lettter(s), which can usually be also found at the start of each part of the music, indicating it's loudness. But they aren't required most of the time.
pp pianissimo, p piano, mp mezzopiano, mf mezzoforte, f forte, ff fortissimo (from quietest to loudest)
Very helpful thank you😊
there is such a thing as forte fortissimo and piano pianissimo (fff and ppp respectively) which mean as loud and or as quiet as possible with a solid tone(fff with an accent is crazy on the trombone), as well as some other special dynamics that I'm curios to how the game will pull off like fmp which means land on the note at forte and then fall to mezzopiano. just wanted to add on a little extra info!
I will never watch a conductor again without assuming he's saying, "Keep it down back there, be a little quieter, shhhhhh"
If the conductor is actually speaking, then he is royally pissed XD.
I'm impressed how much personality they put into this early alpha, it could've just been a tutorial and a few songs, they didn't need voice acting at all (but it makes a difference). I also enjoyed the 'royalty free' version of Swing Swing, that first Jazz song which was just a very slightly modified version of a real song
Also, as a drummer I liked how quickly it 'tricked' you into doing independent limb movements, and almost all of it seems basically synonymous with drumming, all about timing and limb independence
This looks really fun
Verdi’s Dies Irae as your first concert, on your first day as a conductor… blooming heck, that’s tough! Excellent review and very funny commentary. Great video.
Would like to have a video of wolf dancing to this VR while playing it. Think is would do well, and be also funny.
Fun fact: Mozart's first name was actually Wolfgang. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
And his wife called him Wolfie.
Hello, Wolf gang!
People don't know that?
Elaine: Hey did you know that Mozart died while he was writing 'The Requiem'?
Jerry: (Sarcastically) Yeah, everyone knows that--it was in Amadeus!
As a German I can't wait to do Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries xD
you mad lad, but i bet it will be so much fun
You sure you’re not looking forward to conducting Erika lol jk
It's something that you learn as a musician, even if you thought classical music was boring before, but the act of actually performing it with a group coordinating together and being guided by someone with a vision... Suddenly it just elevates everything. Notice how you would probably never listen to that last song before, but you were really getting into it when you were in the driver's seat ;3
8:06 this MAKES it look easy but if isn’t as when you’re looking at the conductors score you have roughly 20 lines of music on 1 page and you need to know where each instrument comes in and if they’re playing the correct rhythm! (I’ve been playing in Brass Bands for near enough a decade and when I look at conductors scores I marvel!)
Hip hop and orchestra go surprisingly well together
As rock does too, if only more people would care to listen to it.
I feel like many hip-hop artists with powerful voices are wasting that potential on just 2 or 3 notes..
@@ZeeSpecialThreeA lot of people prefer harmonic matching instruments over backgrounds thank you.
Metal and orchestra is the best!
Messa da Requiem is a classic. Very dramatic.
If you seen the trailer for the full game, it will be even more epic.
This is the kind of thing VR needs more of. It's great. Better with controller
Admit it, Wolf. You've done some conducting before, at least in music lessons in school. The way you kind of naturally beat a 4/4 pattern when only asked to hit the accents gives it away. ;-)
And yes, conducting a real orchestra (well) is extremely hard. And it's usually not about just keeping a tempo and giving musical cues, but mostly about very precise hearing during rehearsal and getting the musicians to perform the piece as you want in the actual concert. Luckily, in this app, the musicians actually play fairly flawlessly already, so you're simply conducting the most amazing orchestra in the world. A virtual one.
This is such a great concept!
ya feel like that Scen of Looney Tunes when Bugs Bunny comes to the scenery and everyone says " Leopold!" amazed :)
Leopold.
@@Lucas-Stl le le .....leopold *bows and hands off baton* lol
that would be then famous conductor Leopold Stokowski
I never got around to playing this with a quest 2 because the hand tracking was pretty rough when this demo first came out, especially in a dark room. I should really give it a try with a quest 3 now. It looks satisfying for sure.
Dude, imagine this game with Victor Borges version of “Dance of the Comedians,” so playing the song, while also doing his comedy routine!
Awsome game! Can't wait for the full release.
Yes please play the full game!!!!
Ayyy Liberty University!
I get the feeling that Wolf is excited about this. Off to try the demo!
EDIT - I don't suppose you know any conductors Wolf. Would be amazing to see a conductor play this.
I took some conducting classes for my music degree so I could give feedback. Finding only conductors is hard because all classical composers learn to conduct but as a profession those are held by the few professionals cuz they are stationary jobs like 20+ years. Two famous conductors are Leonard Bernstein and Gustavo Dudamel.
Wolfzart has arrived…I think grunting should be added to more orchestras.
Puts a smile on my face when I see wolf upload 🔥 🐺
This turned out a lot funnier than expected... "I am very good at pointing. Huaa!" 12:07 🤣
I got my first VR headset and Maestro completely blew me away. I'm not sure if i'm getting it on Steam or Quest store, but I'm definitely getting it
As a musician this game is actually fairly realistic within the range of musical elements. It’s really cool.
“Shouldn’t they know that by reading the music? What do they need me for?” 😱
*FROM BREAK AND RUIN, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE BEGINS*
Its really cool to see a game with hand tracking
I randomly saw Maestro VR in the top 50 VR games on Steam sales.. and I was like this game in this video is a far better state from what it looks like on Steam.. Turns out there is "Maestro VR" and "Maestro", Maestro being this game and it's far superior and I think people are mistaking the two games as "Maestro VR" is already out and "Maestro" is "Coming Soon" on Steam..
This brings me back some *"great"* memories with Wii Music.
The maestro mini game on Wii Music was one of my favorite mini games in that game! I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star sooo many times to get a perfect score, and my friends and I would huddle up and move our remotes at the same time to try and get a better score lol.
@@VeryTori Oh lol, that must have gone pretty "easy". Also, didn't expected a Wii Music player out in this world !
Once the modders get a hold of this it'll be incredible. I'm definitely looking forward to see what this game develops into.
I’m sorry but the angry faces above the bones and trumpets when the tutorial guy said no jazz is hilarious to me
Conducting your hand is almost always in 4/4 which starts on a down stroke, then a swing to the left at the middle of your compass esk imaginary chart, then swing to the right, and then to the top and then back to the bottom. The bottom, left, right, and the up refers to the 4 notes in a measure. If you hear that background beat, everytime it sounds it usually going to be the 1st beat of the measure. You know it's the first beat because you don't need 4 beats when the musicians already are more focused on their music at that point, and just need markings as to when the 1st measure is. You are counting consistently the entire time to follow the conductor.
Music can happen without a conductor though I imagine it will start to loose both tempo (the speed in which you are playing at consistently and unchanging until you are required to change), and rhythm and togetherness of the band. Often times, a composer conducts so that people in the back play at the same time, since sound will have a travel length, and you may hear the front instruments slightly after the beat 1 motion (beginning of a mesure) of the conductor, so when the back of the orchestra tries to match up with the front, WITHOUT a conductor, the front will hear the them playing late. The audience however hears everything at the same time because of their much further distance away; much like how Mercury orbits the sun slightly faster than Venus, but Neptune will be infinitely slower and wouldn't have any correlation to speeds that both seem the same to it. Conductors will call all four of those beats because it's easy for them to do and doesn't disturpt the music. It is a silent metronome, and a metronome is the constant 4 beat ticks in a measure, where you can start on any tick and then count from there.
Music is pure art that people think is really easy and can just hop into at any time. No.
Omg yes finally i have been waiting for wolf to find this game
Reminds me of Fantasia: Music Evolved for the Xbox Kinect! :)
16:46 Wrong kind of piano you’re thinking of 😭 😭
I need to get my band director father to play this. I think it would be funny to watch.
Holy crap! I've been wishing for something like this!
As a previous high school marching band conductor, I can attest that this is all actually stuff that happens.
I'd explain how it works... not just that you do it. It controls everything
Very extroverted gameplay for such an introverted thing like VR is 😂
This looks hard, very cool to see how this works. Had no idea the person was directed everyone.
There's videos of this game where they are flipping everyone off. It's hilarious
There is a PC version aswell by different developers. Its a little clunky but he casual mode is really fun
I hope you play it when it comes out!
YEs! I played this game, its AWESOME
Best Maestro EVER! Bradley Cooper should play you in a Movie!
LETS GOOOO!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS GAME SINCE VR FIRST CAME OUT!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY IDEA!!! I AM SO GLAD IT HAS BEEN MADE!!!!
Great video. Made me laugh. You are good.
I know they probably can't have Star Wars music, but Duel of the Fates would be incredible in this game.
He finally played it
Hope you're gonna be able to play Tjajkovskij in the full game! XD
"Tjajkovskij, canons are not instruments!"
"Yes they are, and I'm going to use 21 of them!"
"Tjajkovskij, no!"
"Tjajkovskij, yes!"
U know the first song that’s gonna be put on the game when it’s fully out is the USSR anthem lol
16:54
*Gasp*
Leopold.
I watched this and moved my hands too
I like this game, very fun
Forte (F) is when the musicians play louder, but Piano (P) is when the musicians play softer!
This game is so fun, i wish there would be a full version (already). There is Maestro VR, but it super bad.
NO COS I LITERALLY JUST PLAYED THIS (also what the bat got an update so maybe play that please)
I'm no classical fanatical but I swear there are days where I sincerely could buy a vr headseat and decent pc jsut to play this and be able to orhcestrate Shehezarade of Rimsky and Korsakov. Is there a way to conduct custom songs?
games not out yet so we don’t know, but don’t even need a pc
bro I had a thought, conducters would be the best wizards today,
Wolf you should play cactus cowboy plants at war. It’s a quirky little shooter with a good story
Okay, I'm confused but this is what I think is going on: What you showed in this video was a free Quest app called "Maestro: The Masterclass". The full game, when it releases, will be called "Maestro" and will be available for Quest and on Steam (didn't look for other options). Steam has another game that is released called "Maestro VR" which is fairly different from what you've shown. You might want to make it a little clearer what it is you are showing or, if I'm totally off base here, you can correct me.
HAY Wolf. You will be shocked. If you have a psvr 2. There is a wanderer 2 in a way coming out on the PS5. It's a reimagined wanderer. Better! I forgot the hold date but I do know the month is June
3 more days until it comes out. i cannot wait to conduct Carmina burana
Ah the original PlayStation sound at the start (cause that's the sound orchestras use to say they're ready)
you should play bootstrap island and try to kill every single monster you see!
We need more boot strap island!!!!!!!!
14:24 that shit is 1800s Snoop Dogg no jokes bleed
And he cussed at 18:43! No cussing allowed in ORCHESTRA Wolf. You know this by now😂
You talked way too much to be able l to hear the music
Take a bow, Maestro Wolf! Encore! Encore!! also I know it was a different Olivia, but you're welcome!
also, also I'm convinced now that being a conductor is the closest thing to being a wizard. but maybe the OG Fantasia is influencing my opinion on that.
Insanely underrated
Wingardium Leviosa ...
Oops!!wrong place
By the way at the beginning of the video when that dude said "withel" it is because back then s looked like a t
Is there going to be a story involved in this game?
I hope there is going to be a free play mode
As a band member myself, him not understanding anything and I do makes me feel smart.
Guten Tag love the vids danke
For your information Forte is loud piano is quiet
Whats the name of the 2nd song after the whistle on the tutorial?
Actually janitors don't clean the stage, that's the stagehands job
Can you Continue the blade and sorcery day 1
HEY BBG
What next VR just dance 😅
Yo how do you capture content with high fov like that
there is a bugs bunny cartoon exactly like that...
i dont want to be that guy but the cresendos and the decresendos are not to correct mistakes but for the actual song
To correct mistakes did someone say? Jesus, it's how loud or soft you play in a gradual procession. If he listened to anything the teacher was saying, he's start to grasp the concepts of what is happening.
I've never seen any hobby where someone looks like such a dopey fool when they come into it acting like they know things and yet know nothing.
*rubs chin* Uhh, Wolf...question, couldn't you have pointed with your right hand just as well as your left? Probably woulda hit some of those right points on time if you didn't try to hit them with your left.
Gorilla tag free
Vr
Quest 2
Wolfzart
someone thought what if windwaker was beatsaber?
Please play it again 😢
23:51
no blade and sorcery 😢.Wolf please make it more frequent,it would make me so so happy.
Thank you❤
That game is bad
@@Hudson-pw9cs then don't watch it
Omfg, that was sing sing sing with a swing.... but they couldn't afford the rights so thaye need to do the whole only 70% of the song can be the song to avoid a copyright infringement
I am watching this with my cats
Play creed rise to glory please