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Miss Silly said:
Just to elaborate on the above, if you play the original and the cha-cha version one after another, you're ears will pick up the difference. Aside from 'appropriate bmp', there are rhythmic characteristics of each dance that make it what it is. So cha cha - with it's distinctive 4&1 - will be amplified quite a bit with the percussion... So you can hear in the original, there isn't really much to emphasize that "cha cha" (the 4&1 counts), compared to the cha-cha-fied version.

Usually when they take a pop song and turn it into dance music, they'll just basically tweak the tempo and overlay a percussion track that's signature to that dance style. LIke in a rumba, generally always has an overlay of congas and sometimes (although not always) even with the classical bossa nova rhythm in there with something like a clave. Here's a song example that's been rumba-fied and you'll easily hear that signature percussive "rumba sound":



OR sometimes the song gets re-recorded with a new singer/band in the appropriate style (kind of like a cover song).
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@Miss Silly, Somehow I am just now seeing this, sorry about that.
Thank you for explaining! Ok, yes, that makes sense, I can definitely hear the differences.

The addition of percussion helps a lot, here is a samba example I found.

Here is the original song

VS

Samba Version
 
AHCook said:
@Miss Silly, Somehow I am just now seeing this, sorry about that.
Thank you for explaining! Ok, yes, that makes sense, I can definitely hear the differences.

The addition of percussion helps a lot, here is a samba example I found.

Here is the original song

VS

Samba Version
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I like the samba-fied version much better...
 
OOoh i like that!!!!

I love it when sambas are super percussiony. LOL.

Right now i'm loving this one for some reason. I think because the voice reminds me of Benni Benassi "Satisfaction"

 
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