At what kind of tempo range are barn dances played at sessions (assuming barn dances are played at sessions) ?
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Barn Dance Speed?
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Re: Barn Dance Speed?
Found this at Mudcat Cafe, although the actual source is The Fiddler's Companion:
They're played at my local sessions from time to time. Using this webpage, I tend to average at somewhere around 127 to 130 bpm, looks like.Caoimhin Mac Aoidh says: "Barn dances and Germans - These are the same thing. The term German seems to be restricted to west and central Donegal. They are in 4/4 time and played at the speed of a hornpipe."
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Re: Barn Dance Speed?
Thanks very much.
Best wishes.
Steve
Best wishes.
Steve
Live your life so that, if it was a book, Florida would ban it.