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- Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:52 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Calming a crazy floor
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17144
Re: Calming a crazy floor
A few dances I go to are held in small bars and attract a majority of inexperienced partner dancers. The resulting dance floor is often crazy with drinks everywhere and kicks and elbows. It's frustrating for more experienced dancers, who can't dance without being kicked. I wonder if a DJ can contro...
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:03 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: "Blues In the Night" - your solid faves
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8674
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:49 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: "Blues In the Night" - your solid faves
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8674
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:22 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Songs for the Shim Sham
- Replies: 56
- Views: 44706
partly do to a bunch of new dancers who need to learn how to shim sham - lindy hop 101 . Oops - almost missed this - what is ' shim sham - lindy hop 101 ' :?: I was attempting to say that the Shim Sham, especially done with Frankie, or to the song Frankie prefers, is a required element of a Lindy H...
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:34 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Songs for the Shim Sham
- Replies: 56
- Views: 44706
....We stopped doing it regularly a couple of years ago.... <bump> So the Shim-Sham has come back in Seattle; partly due to Frankie's bday fest coming up, partly do to a bunch of new dancers who need to learn how to shim sham - lindy hop 101. For the cities that used to Shim-Sham a lot and then it ...
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:20 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: bpm exchange
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16151
o.k., no one else seems to hate tapping the space bar, so i'll give these bpm widgets another go. thanks. you can always get some good DJ software - JRiver Media Center analyzes the BPM for you when you rip the CD; there is a bug in it so that most songs over 150 bpm are listed at half tempo, but t...
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:10 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: At Last
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2371
At Last
so it's very refreshing to have a President who shares my musical taste. Anyone been hearing "At Last" a lot this week? My local jazz radio is coming up with lots of interesting renditions to play. What is your favorite version? [and moderators, if you feel this isn't "Swing Music&quo...
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:08 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Anybody Shuffle?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13021
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Educating about swing rhythms and schemes?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25567
Re: Educating about swing rhythms and schemes?
Do you have any: - recommendations for international teachers that are experts on that, whom we could ask to do a class when they are around In addition to those recommended, you might also ask Solomon Douglas who is a musician, DJ, and dancer. I don't know how much he is in Europe, but you could t...
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:18 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or other?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 46979
Re: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or ot
And we had a DJ battle a month or so ago, Falty won, playing nothing but music recorded after 1980. And it all swung hard. So it doesn't have to be from the 30's or 40's to swing. So if he didn't play Swing, what did he play? the two that I remember that I knew were the New Orleans Jazz Vipers vers...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or other?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 46979
Re: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or ot
As for Seattle and swing music, I'd say things are pretty swingin' up here. Most dances have music from the 30s and 40s, with certain DJs throwing in more 20s and 50s than others. There is also plenty of recordings from the 80s to the present (trad jazz and swing) being played as well. Adding a cou...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:11 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or other?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 46979
Re: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or ot
73.8% real Swing :wink: Haha. You're sure? Well no one would be sure until you visited and made your personal assessment of the situation and self certified it of course. given that I certify Trev's statement and claim the rest of the 26.2% is comprised of Wynonie Harris. lol. Sincerely though the ...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Swinging Christmas CD
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8543
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:52 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7912
Re: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?
But I find this song depressing, and it fails because the tune is not exciting and the words are about a sad lonely man who can't dance :( - really you find the tune not exciting? I love how Jimmy Rushing sings "When he found the fourth dimension". The lyrics to this song always cracked m...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: danceable Louis Armstrong
- Replies: 49
- Views: 30333