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 <[email protected]>wrote: > Greg McKenzie wrote: > > > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > -- 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
