SwingDJs

Hi everybody, I'm currently building a custom DJ software we'll probably use in our new studio (which currently only has the usual two-deck CD player and a two channel mixer that also has two USB sound interfaces - i.e. digital in for the mixer). Here's a mockup of what I'm planning to do: http://im...

He was a dancer and not a musician - but he definitely has done a lot for Swing in general. http://www.frankiemanning.com/ Frankie Manning: May 26, 1914 - April 27, 2009 It is with great regret that we inform you that legendary lindy hopper and inspiration to tens of thousands of dancers around the ...

I could neither find that song by the duke on AMG, nor on the 40 CD "The Duke" box set that I have.

I know what the song reminded me of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRL5Z1k60tg

It's the closing theme of the Pink Panther TV show in German known as "Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht?". I don't know if the US version had the same closing theme.

But I guess that's a false match.

Could you post another excerpt, maybe a bit later?
I think I can almost recognize it, but it stops just short of what I need.
It feels like some 'rag' to me, just played with a typical swing sound.

Jazz it up for Lindy Hop Vol. 1: 1. Billie Holiday / Moonlight in Vermont 2. Benny Goodman / Alexanders's Ragtime Band 3. Nat King Cole / Sweet Georgia Brown 4. Louis Armstrong / Jeepers Creepers 5. Ray Charles / She's On The Ball 6. Ella Fitzgerald / That Old Black Magic 7. Benny Goodman / Clarinet...

A song that really gets me onto the floor for bal is Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt What makes me Bal on that tune is that it keeps a steady flow while having variations in the melody. I'd also say that it has some rhythm variations in the melody lead, but that makes them somewhat 'optional'. On so...

Hi, I'd also love to see the complete lists posted. I've discovered so many nice songs by digging through tracklists and playlists ... FWIW, I've collected tracklists for the "Jazz it up for Lindy Hop" series (Vol. 1-7) which seem to be unofficial compilations only distributed at Herrang a...

I havn't verified it, but I'm pretty sure that the ratings data is included in the library .XML file that itunes stores. I've offered here in the forum to collect iTunes library files to collect BPM data (we could also collect tagging and rating data, FWIW) to build a database of BPM values, but so ...

I didn't have the song at hand right now either. 96 * 3/2 = 144 would match up with Haydn pretty well ... 189 * 3/4 = 141. Again the calculator seems to have picked up some other rhythm in the song... that is exactly why I don't trust the automatic calculators. That's why I'd like to have some datab...

Hi all, http://elrond.cdtm.de/musicdb/ currently has a database I've fed with the data I have available (I didn't get any contributions in form of an iTunes library file so far). You'll see that the data quality varies a lot from the sources I collected the data from; sometimes genre annotation is b...

+1 for the yehoodi thread. Jonathan, when you come to Germany at some point, Munich in particular, I guess there might be some interest in a musicality class with musicians. Every now and then we slip in some basic musicality classes (e.g. covering 32-bar AABA form, Blues scheme, and some steps to h...

Use shuffle on your preview headphones. If it comes up with a good song, try to find some transition songs to it. I like using randomness to pull up some songs I don't play too often. But I wouldn't blindly throw them at the audience, they still have to fit the mood. Sometimes songs come up that I r...

Hi folks, I would have pretty much all the code needed in place to make a web based song database for the BPM values. That is, I have all my music in a database with that information, it's pretty quick at looking up songs even with fuzzy matching. I've had lots of fun by throwing in some paragraphs ...

beats per minute aren't everything, but it's handy to have them around, init? too bad it's such a pain to calculate them (even with the tap bpm widget and its ilk--the values fluctuate too much with my erratic tapping). http://www.vitavonni.de/projekte/bpm-toy.html.en It's really trivial to use on ...