Waltz Tempos |
February 17th, 2012 |
| contra |
Playing the Thursday Night
Contra at the Scout
House with the Free Raisins
last week I was talking to Edward Wallace about waltz tempos. While I
know what bpm I'm shooting for playing for contras
(110-122, 118 is good) I realised I don't really know what tempo is
good for waltzes. Waltzing works over a very wide range of tempos, so
it doesn't matter as much, but I was still curious. I went back over
my recordings of dances and wrote down what tempo we played each of
the waltzes:
We seem to mostly be playing the first waltz between 114 and 130 and the second between 120 and 128. I want to play around with a pretty fast (140, 150?) first waltz now.
date Group break final 2007-03-02 Contrail 160 [1] 128 2010-05-04 ? 114 122 2010-08-13 Free Raisins 138 116 2011-02-23 Jon, Peter, Rick, Gary, Jeff 138 126 2011-09-24 Free Raisins ? 126 2011-10-11 Free Raisins 122 128 2011-11-12 Free Raisins 116 124 2011-12-11 Free Raisins 118 122 2012-01-15 Peter Barnes, BIDA Open Band 122 120 2012-01-24 Edward, Peter, Jeff 130 128 2012-02-01 Free Raisins 114 118 2012-02-09 Free Raisins 118 128
[1] This is back when we had no idea what we were doing.
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