Irena Aligizakis writes: | Would a fiddler play at a different tempo for people | doing a Scottish country dance than for a stepdancer? | I'm just wondering b/c ever since I started | stepdancing I'm a lot more conscious of rhythm and | tempo and things like that in music.
Yep. Step dancers usually have a lot of different tempi. But they are also usually wearing hard-soled shoes, so they are giving you the rhythm and tempo in a very audible form. You can treat them as a kind of drummer. All you have to do is listen and adjust to them. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
