Awful Music


I just want to say, first off, that I love this version. I laughed when I heard it, and it was on repeat, for God knows how long.

However, so help him/her God, let no competition or social DJ attempt to play this.

ETA: Oh, Katherine, give it up.
 
I was just at a competition this weekend, and the music wasn't bad per say, but for open there were 2 heats in the quarter final, and they played music for the first heat from the beginning, and I was in the second heat so I was all excited that we get to hear the music and can easily get into our dancing and our choreo in latin is phrased very precisely, and instead of just starting the music again for the second heat, the dj just played it continuing from before, so there was no intro and we couldn't get the right phrasing.... it was rather frustrating...

Also, I wanted to mention, let's never start playing the first minute of jive and then say, oh sorry we need to restart that. Fail. :-( My knees wanted to give out.

Also 2 minutes of a fast jive that is prob not competition speed, never again, please..... have mercy.
 

At about 1:55 the foxtrot starts. Is it just me, or does the song start REALLY REALLY fast and then slow down to be really slow?
 
UMASSshoesandcostumes said:
I have a ballroom dance collection of music which includes a Paso Doble version of Pinball Wizard. I can't decide if I hate it because it's destroyed the song, or if I love it because I can dance Paso Doble to Pinball Wizard.
The worst comp in regards to music in my experience was Tufts this year-- they actually had to stop rounds in the middle and restart to a different piece because the tempo was poor, or dancers (even upper level dancers) had trouble finding the beat of the music, it was not pretty. I've never seen another comp do that. My experience at Brown wasn't bad, but it was my first time going this year, so maybe it was better this year than it has been in the past?
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Someone told me that at Tufts, they couldn't find an actual ballroom dj and so they just found a random dj and told him to play music for 1:30 and so something like paso where the second highlight is significantly before 1:30 throws people off when they start playing the third section.... on top of which they once started a tango song for a paso.... it was just a bit of a mess....
 
smidra86 said:
Also 2 minutes of a fast jive that is prob not competition speed, never again, please..... have mercy.
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That is not the first time I have heard that jive in competition. By my count, it's 44 mpm, which is the limit for how fast a jive can be. But 2 minutes of that cannot correlate with having happy feet after.
 
smidra86 said:
I was just at a competition this weekend, and the music wasn't bad per say, but for open there were 2 heats in the quarter final, and they played music for the first heat from the beginning, and I was in the second heat so I was all excited that we get to hear the music and can easily get into our dancing and our choreo in latin is phrased very precisely, and instead of just starting the music again for the second heat, the dj just played it continuing from before, so there was no intro and we couldn't get the right phrasing.... it was rather frustrating...
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How many bars per minute is a typical Jive for you? In Germany, 43 is perfect competition mode (rules say Jive is to be 42-44 bars per minute). I think this one is on the Casa Musica Vol. 19. Having said that, I'd probably find it quite fast, too. I have the feeling that there is a tendency to play slower music overall... and I love it.

Continuing the song from the previous heat is really unfortunate. Sorry to hear you had a tough time getting the right phrasing...


Oh my, did he slow the Foxtrot in the middle of the phrase?!
Ehm... another question... what is the typical tempo of American Foxtrot...?
I only dance international style and this would be too fast for me. I prefer my SF to be around 28 bars, this one's around 29.5 I believe.

[EDIT - oooops, somehow missed a couple of postings. sorry everyone!
... and apparently my tool for calculation mpm works kind of strangely... I seem to get lower numbers than you guys...]
 
Leon Theou said:
That is not the first time I have heard that jive in competition. By my count, it's 44 mpm, which is the limit for how fast a jive can be. But 2 minutes of that cannot correlate with having happy feet after.
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Yeah, I don't have a problem with the song per say. The first time I heard it a few years ago it was my fav song and I played it over and over again, but after a full 4 dances before that all which weren't too slow either, doing 2 minutes as your last dance of the fastest possible speed= not happy me. We got off the floor and I'm like to my partner, walk fast so I can get water but so it doesn't look like I'm about to pass out.
 
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