Re: [Callers] Rolling Starts?

From the Wikipedia article: "In music, a vamp is a repeating musical figure, section, or accompaniment used in blues, jazz, gospel, soul, and musical theater. Vamps are also found in rock, funk, reggae, R&B, pop, country, and post-sixties jazz. Vamps are usually harmonically sparse. A vamp may consist of a single chord or a sequence of chords played in a repeated rhythm. The term frequently appeared in the instruction 'Vamp till ready' on sheet music for popular songs in the 1930s and 1940s, indicating that the accompanist should repeat the musical phrase until the vocalist was ready. Vamps are generally symmetrical, self-contained, and open to variation."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato#Vamp)

-Preplanned vs spontaneous rolling starts. When I decided to start working on rolling starts, I preplanned with a band that I knew loved them. We discussed: timing, signaling, what to do if things failed to sync or fell apart. To my total delight, both rolling starts worked. My next rolling start was a surprise to me- the band just jumped in behind me! Some bands can and love to do this. Some callers love this, others don't. I've stopped bands from vamping behind me if I knew I had a lot of explaining to do.