SwingDJs

From the "Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg" department... Does somebody have to be a Good Swing Dancer to be a Great Swing DJ? Can a non-dancer develop an ear for what makes a dancable song? A lot of times when I'm out dancing, somebody will play a piece which would sound GREAT if ...

If the goal is simply an average tempo, then a single time measure (1 second precision) and a count of the number of measures (or 8's) (4/8 beat precision) over the entire song or sufficient duration (32 beats?)would probably yield a better result than a tapping style beat counter. I agree with Dav...

I don't agree with editing in general. I think it panders to the dancers. Isn't a DJ's job at a dance to make people, you know, DANCE ?! The Promoter in me thinks: if you have a room full of people who paid to be there, yeah, you SHOULD be pandering to them! "The Customer Is Always Right,"...

Any recommedations for a freeware manual BPM counter for Mac OS that lets you tap every 2 bars or something like that? I whipped up the following Quick-and-Dirty shell script that lets me hit 'Enter' at the end of every 8-bar Phrase (32 beats, four sets of eight, whatever...) It does it four times ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Dammit! I was going to make that joke, but figured, "Eh, people will just think, 'Smart-ass!'" I guess when Rayned says it, though, it's funny... 8) (The other joke would have been, "Eddie Cochran's original, of course! Though The Who and Blue Chee...

" Blues Naughty (different) " ... by " Sidney Bechet " from the album " Kyle Smith's ABW2007 CD " Sorry if this seems snarky, but this doesn't seem like it would be a properly licensed CD. I know we're all probably tired of yakking about copyright by now, but I definit...

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be careful when stepping into the territory of editing very familiar tunes. I remember the disappointment of dancing to LCJO's "Happy Go Lucky Local", only to find that the DJ had decided to cut it off half way through! :( I (obviously) think there's a lot of opportunity to be creative wh...

Episode #019 of the "Hey Mister Jesse" podcast is now available to download and enjoy. July's show features new music from Australia, tons of news, a handclappin' 8-Count Swing , and listener feedback. (69 minutes) Listen to the show now at www.yehoodi.com/mrjesse ! Thanks, Jesse, for fea...

No, I'm not talking about "listening" to music as people today may consider it as disposable filler pumped into their heads with an Ipod. That's "hearing" music (passive). To Listen requires an active, concerted effort. And you can do that on an iPod, LP, or even 8-Track Tape fo...

I've got small living quarters. I have a collection of CD spindles, some of which are backups that I never use, others of which I pull something out of rather regularly. I admit this sounds like a crazy idea, but get some peg-board -- you know, the brown stuff with lots of holes in it for little me...

We played LPs for years and still do and no one agonized like that except the 'sound nuts' because none of it *mattered* beyond theory. If you're talking about LISTENING to music, hell, use whatever you can get your hands on; as soon as it's hit your ears, you'll never hear it the same way again. I...

But do you really need 10 inputs and 14 outputs? The Fasttrack Pro has two inputs and two stereo outputs, which is less overkill. Other than the number of channels (and that it's USB), the specs look similar. No no, of course you don't need to spend upwards of $500 on something "stupid powerfu...

Motu Ultralite $549, but it looks really good. For weddings and "one-off" gigs (where they didn't have a sound system) I used to lug all this stuff around: http://www.Dabe.com/images/BasementDJBooth-720x576.jpg Now with the MOTU Ultralite I only need the laptop and speakers. It's *SO* muc...

Most pro DJs shy away from M-Audio soundcards. For instance, I had a Firewire Solo which got freaked out by frequent plugging / unplugging / sleeping / waking / rebooting, etc. -- all the things laptop users tend to do a lot. The only way I could get it to work reliably was to shutdown my MBP, plug...