Topic: How would you classify Modern Jive music?

[Matt E]

Hi!

Bit technical question. I'm starting to separate my dance music collection by style so that if I want to practice a particular type of styling when training I can easily isolate appropriate tracks. I can also randomise that folder, so that I can have the challenge of dancing to an unknown track, while still being sure that it will be the right style. What folders would you have for LeRoc music?

I would say that style is not the same as genre; eg. I would probably put pop, most rock and disco of mid-speed into the same folder because I would dance to them in more-or-less the same way. Or should I? Should I group all Latin tracks together or should I break them up based on what kind of latin dance they sound like they belong to? (Salsa and Tango being the most common I think) Or am I wasting my time?    What do you all think?

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[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Probably if you're doing that you may be better off sorting your CDs by alphabetical order, then making a database of your dance tracks - each track can be used for x different styles of dancing.

Then you can search on the jiveable tracks, and lay your hands on the CDs easily too.

Some of the songs can be used in many different dance styles, though I find modern jive is very flexible and can use more than other styles.

John.

[Matt E]

All my dance music is in one folder on my computer and mp3 player. I don't have the CDs as most of it is downloads. As you can imagine, having 500+ Jive tracks in one folder makes it hard to find things, so that's why I wanted to break it down by the style of the music- to keep Pump It by the Black Eyed Peas separate from Everything by Michael Buble!

Still unsure about what different categories I should have though...

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Depends on your player, but you might be able to do this using playlists - e.g. have a swing playlist, a pop/chart playlist, a europop one, etc.  A track might be on multiple playlists - so you could look it up in any "genre" playlist and find it that way.