How to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Everyone knows the start of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but did you know how hard those four famous notes are to play? Ben Northey explains why they strike terror into the hearts of conductors and orchestras.
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[@willschneider4616]

Most musicians: it's an eighth rest, three eighth notes, and a quarter note on the downbeat. We call them eigith notes because two of them happen evenly in the time of a quarter note. British musicians: hemidemisemiquaver! Minim! Expelliarmus patronus! I propose that Americans switch to the metric system and Brits switch to the whole-half-quarter-eighth-sixteenth system of rhythm. I also propose a full measure of inactive beats followed by a very active gesture of syncopation makes for the most likely to get the correct entrance on the first rehearsal.

[@OmarTravelAdventures]

Intriguing. I am still having trouble seeing it in the hand gestures.

[@AlexaSiri-vt7vu]

I like explaining it via syncopation because it's lowkey ssyncopated kinda like with a fugue if it were a bach thing And yeah you fight the orchestra, my hand is held out for quiet as I tell people CHILL

[@daniloapostolov-dacatv1536]

Piece is in 2/4?

[@eviltomthai]

This video is edited in the most annoying way possible