{"items": [{"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=183986441735518", "anchor": "fb-183986441735518", "service": "fb", "text": "Makes perfect sense.  Focus or excitement -- different sides of the brain.  Don't ask both sides to be on their game at the same time.  BTW, second para, second sentence -- ?", "timestamp": "1346504395"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=183990928401736", "anchor": "fb-183990928401736", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: \"second para, second sentence\"<br><br>Fixed.", "timestamp": "1346505345"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1346508876185", "service": "gp", "text": "I can't remember now, how do they do it at the NEFFA contra medleys? They change \ncallers\n on the last time through one dance, so you hear the new voice calling familiar figures and then the same voice calling new figures, but I don't recall whether the tune changes with the dance or with the caller or neither.", "timestamp": 1346508876}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1346517784184", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n\u00a0At all the NEFFA medleys I can remember the band changes tunes when the dance changes.", "timestamp": 1346517784}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=184056741728488", "anchor": "fb-184056741728488", "service": "fb", "text": "I agree with you, Jeff.", "timestamp": "1346520598"}, {"author": "Edward", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=184165998384229", "anchor": "fb-184165998384229", "service": "fb", "text": "Disagree, strongly. I think that changing the tune helps the dancers to notice that the dance is changed. The trick is that band shouldn't come in too loudly, or play in an attention-grabbing way - they can ramp that up the 3rd time through the new dance.<br><br>In summary: there's lots of ways to change tunes. Pick one that works.", "timestamp": "1346548408"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=184444181689744", "anchor": "fb-184444181689744", "service": "fb", "text": "@Edward: I've never seen dancers not notice that the dance has changed.  Is this a common problem you run into?<br><br>While you can definitely make the transition work by doing it in a non-attention-grabbing way, I feel like that loses a lot of the point of a tune change.", "timestamp": "1346620251"}, {"author": "Edward", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/183983185069177?comment_id=184468495020646", "anchor": "fb-184468495020646", "service": "fb", "text": "Maybe I should have said, changing the tune helps emphasize the change in the dance.<br><br>Maybe too, I'm thinking of a tune change as part of a storyline, and the story of the tune and dance changing together makes sense to me. Certainly a tune change doesn't have to involve focusing on the band, and there are ways other than tune changes to get the dancers' attention.", "timestamp": "1346624527"}]}