Hi Bev,

You've got it right: 1 bar = 2 beats. It confuses me most of the time...

Chris

The Witful Turnip wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:46:50 -0400
> From: "Chris Weiler (home)" <chris.weiler at weirdtable.org>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] 40 bar dances
>
>   
>> Found it on YouTube:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L0IFo7LVok
>>     
>
> Thanks for posting this Chris. It is a great tune. But I clearly have some
> bars to beat/count confusion going. I count this tune as follows:
>
> A1: 8, 8
> A2: 8, 8
> B1: 8, 16
> B2: 8, 16 
>
> David Millstone made a comment <and no wiping of egg required> that the
> Cherokee Shuffle tune in the B part is 10 bars long, not 12.  But if I count
> it as..
>
> A1: 8, 8
> A2: 8, 8
> B1: 8, 12
> B2: 8, 12
>
> How do I get to the 10 bars??? Is it 8 + 12 = 20 / 2 = 10 bars??  Is that
> the conversion?? "30 year Jig" would be 8 + 16 = 24 / 2 = 12 bars....  So,
> are straight contra dance tunes 32 bar tunes ? (8 + 8 = 16 / 2 = 8 * 4 =
> 32). If my conversion theory is correct, that would make Cherokee Shuffle a
> 36 bar tune, and 30 Year Jig a 40 bar tune. Am I understanding this
> correctly?
>
> I'm so *not* a math or music theory head! But I suspect that bands would
> prefer me to say I need an [N] bar tune rather than trying to describe what
> I mean in beats/counts. And I really hadn't meant to start the beat vs.
> count vs. bar discussion again. I just didn't get it the first time. 
> Thanks,
> Bev
>
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