11 Jan
2010
11 Jan
'10
7:50 p.m.
sixty-four counts, beginning to end
eight clear eight-count phrases
108-120 bpm
Is that so much to ask?
Other than than that, I'm happy for people to try stuff, see what works.
When it doesn't, don't do it again. (If the dancers can't dance to your
riffs, go get a bar gig.)
M
E
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Jeff Kaufman <jeff(a)alum.swarthmore.edu>wrote;wrote:
Greg McKenzie wrote:
--
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
Recently I danced to a band that played almost no tunes during the
evening in a traditional style. The dancers loved the swing in the
music but something was missing. Missing was the trance state
achieved by the regular, repetitive, driving tempo of a traditional
reel or jig.
I see this as band-to-band differences. Some bands play in ways that
are conducive to dancers getting into a 'trance' state, others don't.
Listen to duke miller calling in 1965 [1] -- with the caller calling
each dance the whole way through (or dropping out once near the end
with "you're on your own") I don't hear these as 'trance' like
at
all. I don't think there's a problem with that, though.
Jeff
[1] http://www.configular.com/duke/
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