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  When I was in seminary, I took a course in choir directing.  I had to have a music class, and this one seemed like it would be pretty easy.  It was sort of.  

 The first thing we learned was how many beats to a measure.  I knew that already, having done handbells and church choir.  We had to learn that, so we would know how to move our directing arm to the downbeat and to the music.  It was pretty basic.  We formed a semicircle in the classroom, and we all directed a piece played on the piano.  Some students got confused with the beats, but I was pretty good. When I was younger, I would stand in front of a mirror in my bedroom and "conduct" the classical music I heard on my stereo.  This class wasn't much different.

 The next thing we learned was how to find middle C on a piano.  We needed to know this in order to get our choirs in tune.  We then learned where the other notes were on the piano to correspond to the treble clef.  I had never taken piano classes growing up, but I could play a little guitar.  (And no, it wasn't a ukelele).  Once I learned where these notes were on a piano, I could play a song.  It wasn't required of us to play the piano like a professional, thankfully.

 So, I could take one sheet of music and use one finger to play the piano.  It usually takes me about thirty minutes to figure it out.  There is a reason why most choir directors have someone else playing the piano for their choirs.  It is a lot easier to direct than to do both.