Re: tempos !
mark givens (markeg@hotmail.com)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:09:03 PDT
Dear Jason:
This is not a silly quiestion. Dj's are very serious about keeping the
tempo of thier program constant. Moreover some dancers will leave the
floor if the feel they cant keep up with a tempo. since so many people
on the list are dj and dancers Ithought Id ask. people know
instinctively when a song is too fast. This is why jungle may never go
platinum in the states.
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> Reply to: RE>tempos !
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>you ask such silly questions! no offense intended, but I don't think
butts
>perform any mathematical tempo calculations when they decide whether or
not to
>shake.
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>Of course, being such a headcase, mine actually takes the square root
of the
>tempo and divides it by two, and rounds up the result. If it's an odd
number,
>the shake starts with the left cheek. But that's about as far as it
goes.
>So I think you should release a track that has a negative tempo,
because there
>are no such things as square roots of negative numbers, which will
leave my
>ass thoroughly confused.
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