Scottish country dance videos may help, as in many cases there is no caller, and 40-bar/80-beat dances are much more common than in contra. For example, here's Mairi's Wedding, a forty-bar reel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpLfLurI5s
Or search for Type: Reel or Jig; Bars: 40; Video: checked
on http://my.strathspey.org/dd/search/dance/.
Two provisos - SCDs usually run only eight times through and the music goes rather more slowly than contra (108-16 vs 120-130 bpm).
Yours faithfully,
Edmund Croft,
Cambridge, UK.
Jonathan King wrote:
> I'm looking for an online tune for practicing calling "Major Hey" - it has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80 beat tune, no calling, no singing.
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Yoyo Zhou wrote:
Fri Feb 15 21:04:18 EST 2013
After some more digging, I found an 80-beat / 40-bar tune (AABCC), The
Maids of Mt. Kisco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKDfjOpx0Yc (just the first 3 times through)
I also found some AABCC versions of Elzic's Farewell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ieaEHk77chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdeSSEYryBE (too fast tempo)
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Marvelous! As always, the benefits of a Community.
(Guess that's what "Shared" means)
Thank you very much. -Jonathan King
Thank you all (and thank you Yoyo Zhou for identifying Cis)
for suggestions on modifying tunes to fit "Major Hey".
There are YouTube videas, purely instrumental, of the
72-beat version of "Cherokee Shuffle", e.g,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYduAMqy-Z8
which can be used for practicing calling the eponymous dance.
Now I'm guessing the answer is "no", but just to clarify:
Do any of you know of a YouTube video (or Vimeo, or
similar) with musicians playing an 80-beat tune [but with
no calling nor singing]?
Cheers, -Jonathan King
Re: 80 beat crooked tune:
You could fit the three part version of Ragtime Annie to it, but just do the C part once without a repeat.
You could do the full Billy Wilson, from the Portland Collection #2 if you don't know it. It would work perfectly!
Martha
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> From: squash(a)ufl.edu (Jonathan LF King)
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> Folks
>
> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King <squash(a)ufl.edu> wrote:
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>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is extra
> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last second
> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
> Yoyo Zhou
>
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> When I call this dance - I just ask just ask the band if they have a 5 part tune.? Some do - dome don't
>
> If they don't - I just use a 4 part tune and know the dance will not start at the A1 each time - hasn't caused any problems
>
> You can call this as a 4 part dance if you leave out the Rory O More - but it isn't near as much fun
>
> Mac McKeever
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> Folks
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> ? I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).?
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats).? Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> ? ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing.? Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip?? Ta.
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> The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
> is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
> This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
> band :).
>
>
> Suzanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yoyo Zhou
>> Sent: Feb 14, 2013 11:33 PM
>> To: Caller's discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] Seeking on 80 beat "crooked" tune
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>>
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>>> called version:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>>
>>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
> extra
>> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>>
>> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
> second
>> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>>
>> Yoyo Zhou
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The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
band :).
Suzanne
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>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>
>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
extra
>long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
>The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
second
>of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
>Yoyo Zhou
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Folks
I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
called version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
Thanks for all the ideas re the easy 'leaving the minor' set dances!
I like the idea of dances where the dancers realize/feel that they are
leaving the set but yet, they are well supported and experience success.
Moon and Star Contra sounds as though it would fit into that category well.
Sneak Peak/Preview sounds cool too as it's that introduction and then
finding those folks again. Interesting how Another Nice Combination kept
on coming up... :)
I'll have to test these and the others at one of our monthly callers
gatherings.
Thanks so much for the help!
:) Emily
Hi Folks,
I was wondering if anyone had relatively 'easy on the brain' 'out of your
minor set' dances???
Here in Ottawa (Ontario), dancers aren't used to leaving their minor
set/partner to go dance with other. I'd like to try a few really great
dances with this feature but they need to have a high success rate for a
room of folks not used to this feature of some contras.
Any ideas and if so, why did you choose that dance????
Much thanks!
Emily Addison
I like "Sneak Preview," by Claudio Buchwald
Improper
A1: Neighbor do si do 1 1/2x to next neighbor
Gypsy left once (I make it an allemande sometimes)
A2: Original neighbor, balance and swing
B1: Circle left 3/4x
Partner swing
B2: Ladies chain across
Star left and on to the next
I like it because there's really only one unusual part and if you have a
crowd of less experienced dancers, there's that nice re-orienting neighbor
balance and swing, which gives everyone 16 counts to get their heads
straight.
I also like to start by asking people to identify their next neighbor and
by reminding folks out on the end that they have to stay on their toes and
be ready to be someone's "next neighbor."
Good luck!
Meg (Chicago)
