[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 31, Issue 15

[Rick Knittel]

Sue;

My daughter gets married in Charleston in October and wants me to learn
the shag for a father/daughter dance. How do I learn to do that and at
103 to 105 maybe I am better off not learning?

Rick Knittel
37 Ship Channel Road; South Portland, Maine 04106-5136
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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:58:08 EDT Loerchen2 at aol.com writes:
> Dick,
>  
> Depends on what kind of dancers you want to please -- the perfect  
> 1920s-30s 
> foxtrot tempo averages 94-96 bpm.  I analyzed a bunch of tunes  from 
> the 
> mid-1920s to 1933 for a demonstration of period dance at French  
> Quarter Festival, 
> and almost all of them came in that range.  It's a very  comfortable 
> tempo for 
> dancing Foxtrot or Toddle.
>  
> If you want a one-step, 110-120 is good, a Castle Walk can go to 
> 130, and  
> for a two-step, you can pump it to 140.  But that's only for the  
> young!
>  
> Charleston around 120; Black Bottom is a little slower at about 96.
>  
> Good Shag tempo is around 103-105.  If you're talking swing and 
> Lindy,  
> you've got a lot of leeway -- those folks will dance to  anything!   
>  I used 88 for 
> an early Lindy demo.
>  
> Sue
>  
> *******************
> In a message dated 7/9/2005 2:00:35 PM Central Standard Time,  
> dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com writes:
> 
> Listmates:
> 
> A number of posters have referred to the term  "danceable tempo" in 
> our
> discussions about what draws and keeps an audience  for OKOM. I'd 
> like to
> hear opinions (especially from the prolific and  thought-provoking 
> Steve
> Borbone) about where that comes out on a metronome. I  realize there 
> are
> slow, medium, and fast dances, but what would you say is  the range 
> that
> fills the dance floor? I  realize, too, that a series of  hot tempos 
> all in
> a row will clear the floor but, given an intelligent  variety, 
> what's your
> idea of slow, medium, and fast?
> 
> --Dick  Miller
> 
>  
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Rick Knittel - RK Associates, LLC - Film Extrusion Engineering Services
37 Ship Channel Road; South Portland, Maine 04106-5136
Bus phone; (207)-741-2407; fax 2409; Cell: (207)-233-3480; Home;
(207)-799-6382
E-mail; Knittelsportland at juno.com; Winter Office; 7657 Bergamo Ave;
Sarasota, FL 34238-4765; Phone/Fax; (941)-924-5186