That is what I ended up doing. As soon as one dance ended, I moved over
to the fiddler, showed him the card, told him what I was thinking in
order to give him the maximum amount of time to work on selecting tunes.
Of course calling dances like Chorus Jig makes tune selection a little
easier... 8^) In the end, I didn't keep the dancers waiting much after
the walkthrough.
Chris
Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
One thing you could try - which would work for some fiddlers and not
at all for
others - is to, just as soon as the applause dies down for the last
dance, hand
him the card you're going to call the next dance from. (Or, as someone
else
suggested, start discussing the character of the tune you want.) Then
the band
can work on tune choices even before you start teaching.
