The thing that annoys me the most is the general boring slow classical fare that many of the senior/junior ladies tend to skate to. I can't sit through canadian nationals listening to all that.

With regards to cuts, being semi-professional when it comes to music editing, I totally agree that many people really seem to just not care that the cuts don't work or the pieces don't go together. I they need to hold a seminar for coaches or something to teach them basic music cutting principles hehe. Of course that would put me out of a job... so maybe not ;-)

Everyone I know slags off Yanni too, but I used a piece for my prog and some people said what lovely music! And it is!

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Well perhaps some of the knowledgeable people on here can suggest some music for me - I need a piece that has a rhumba rythym (why do I always think of Rum Baba's when Rhumbas are mentioned.... )

I'm not really sure what constitutes a rhumba at all...

any ideas?

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Here's the question, do you want an "ISU Rhumba" which is actually the *most* politically correct believe it or not, or a ballroom Rhumba, which is a *much* slower and sexier kind of dance. (And it was actually my ballroom instructor that informed me that the ISU Rhumba was closer to the real thing, go figure.)

If you are after Rhumba music, I suggest contact a Ballroom dancing school. There are quite a few popular Latin pieces of music that get used for ballroom competitions for Salsa, Rhumbas and those other rhythms.

BTW - I have picked my latest music and already had people tell me they think it is very much a "Kim" piece of music. However I nearly drove myself and my friends nuts when I was trying to get a good cut at their place the other day. Still I am looking forward to doing it at a competition in June.

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I think it can be either but I probably suit the faster type of music better - somewhere I have the tempo range but I can't access the info at the moment - temperamental computer!!

Good idea to ask at a ballroom dancing school - thanks

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Google for some of the ballroom dance (sorry, dance sport, <snicker>) sites. They usually have lots of music clips. There are sites that sell CDs of ballroom dance music. If it's too fast or slow, a music editor can easily adjust to suit your needs.

The problem with speeding up or slowing down a piece of music is that you either get the pitch going with the tempo (As in music slows down the music gets deeper and lower, and the reverse happens when the music gets faster) Or you do it digitally and you often times wind up with some audible "artifacts" or glitches as they're called. You'd need pretty much a professional sound engineer to do anything really drastic as far as tempo changes without affecting the music negatively hehe.

There's loads of music out there so there's no reason to need that sort of drastic tempo change.

As far as asking a balroom dance school a Rhumba to them would be quite slow, but I'm sure a salsa or cha-cha would be right up your alley and they've always got loads of music.

This thread reminds me of a post years and years ago on the old F$W--a gal had just been a volunteer judge for munchkins and had had to sit through 24 repetitions of The Mexican Hat Dance!