Hi Jim, I always use music for my lessons. Live if the band is willing; recorded if not. For this purpose, I have an ipod and powerful battery powered speaker I can use that is sufficient to fill most spaces. My experience is music gives dancers an idea of phrasing and tempo of dance they might otherwise not understand. I build a very simple dance (Babaloo Reel) phrase by phrase. Been doing it for 20+ years, and pretty much cannot imagine NOT doing a lesson to music.
BTW, I have a fairly detailed description of my lesson, which I am happy to share if you want me to mail you a copy. Regards, Greg On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 3:56 PM jim saxe via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I'd like to hear from any of you who can share experience or advice about > making use of music during the introductory lesson (a/k/a "new dancers' > orientation", "beginners' workshop", etc.) that often precedes a regularly > scheduled contradance. > > What source of music do you use? (Recorded music played on a device that > you control? Live music played by a musician assisting with the lesson? > Music that you yourself can play on some instrument while leading the > session? Your own singing of song lyrics, nonsense syllables like "la la > la", or dance calls? Music that may happen to be coming from the evening's > band doing their sound check at the other end of the hall? ..) How--in as > much detail as you care to supply--do you use that music in your teaching? > What do you think/hope your use of music contributes to the effectiveness > or fun of the lesson? > > I tossed out a few ideas on this topic, with much uncertainty about which > ones were any good, in a message I sent on September 2 in the "Brain Dead - > Need Suggestions" thread. I'm re-raising the topic here under a more > descriptive Subject line in hope of getting responses from people who can > offer comments based on actual experience. > > Thanks. > > --Jim > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/ >
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