Colin wrote:
I am glad you enjoyed reading the Journal which is designed to
stimulate thought a wee bit more that the Newsletter. The article
which was less than stimulating and in fact quite innaccurate was the
one where Sarah Paton commented on the financial running of the NPS
and also on 'attitude' at our regular meetings which she has not
attended so how could she know as applies to her knowledge of the work
of our Treasurer.
Anthony tries to make it easy for young people to grasp ideas of
rhythm by vocalising them which works most of the time but he got a
tomato in the face over the rant rhythm. If I can give the idea of the
foot tapping rhythm which is the basis of what you are writing about
it can be expressed? in cut common as lead note,?quaver/ crotchet,
crotchet,crotchet, quaver? rest,quaver/ crotchet...etc. However the
tunes used may not be exactly in that rhythm but would still allow
the dancers to tap out the rhythm with their hard shoes. A slowish
reel would allow the dancers to tap out the rhythm in certain parts of
the dance albeit a bit faster than in a regular rant
Err... yes, exactly. I think that makes things perfectly clear. We can
probably drop this topic now.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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