Hi Bev,
You've got it right: 1 bar = 2 beats. It confuses me most of the time...
Chris
The Witful Turnip wrote:
Message: 2
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:46:50 -0400
From: "Chris Weiler (home)" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] 40 bar dances
Found it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L0IFo7LVok
Thanks for posting this Chris. It is a great tune. But I clearly have some
bars to beat/count confusion going. I count this tune as follows:
A1: 8, 8
A2: 8, 8
B1: 8, 16
B2: 8, 16
David Millstone made a comment <and no wiping of egg required> that the
Cherokee Shuffle tune in the B part is 10 bars long, not 12. But if I count
it as..
A1: 8, 8
A2: 8, 8
B1: 8, 12
B2: 8, 12
How do I get to the 10 bars??? Is it 8 + 12 = 20 / 2 = 10 bars?? Is that
the conversion?? "30 year Jig" would be 8 + 16 = 24 / 2 = 12 bars.... So,
are straight contra dance tunes 32 bar tunes ? (8 + 8 = 16 / 2 = 8 * 4 =
32). If my conversion theory is correct, that would make Cherokee Shuffle a
36 bar tune, and 30 Year Jig a 40 bar tune. Am I understanding this
correctly?
I'm so *not* a math or music theory head! But I suspect that bands would
prefer me to say I need an [N] bar tune rather than trying to describe what
I mean in beats/counts. And I really hadn't meant to start the beat vs.
count vs. bar discussion again. I just didn't get it the first time.
Thanks,
Bev
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