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Finding Good Triple Two Step Music
Music for “Triple Two Step”
Finding good music for a particular genre of dance is often very hard to do. In this post, you’ll find some basic information on “Triple Two Step” and some sample videos so you can see it for yourself what the dance looks like.
If you do a Google search you’ll come up with a lot of possibilities and trust me on this, a lot of them are garbage. Bleech!
So I’ve created a page of some good ones. What? Do I sense some skepticism from the teeming masses? Fear not gentle readers, the songs have been reviewed by my Inner Domestic Diva and they have met with her approval! You can check out the page at Triple Two Step Music — Song List
This list of songs is complied from a variety of sources found on the Internet, including ones from my own library and suggestions from the readers of this blog. You can follow the links on the list to hear previews of the songs and buy your own copy if you like it. And if you do buy a song or CD, then I get a couple of pennies commission. Right now I just have the Amazon Links in place. I’ll have links to iTunes on the list soon.
SAVINGS TIP: Get the CD. A lot of the CDs on Amazon are priced under a dollar. And you get a whole set of songs. Yes, you have to pay postage, but the cost per song is much lower than downloading one song at a time.
If you have a favorite Triple Two Step Song and it isn’t listed here, don’t be shy! You can use the comment form down at the bottom of the page to send me a note and I’ll add it to the list. So what are you waiting for? Check out the page at Triple Two Step Music — Song List.
Squidoo.com
I’ve posted a much longer article over at Squidoo.com.
Hop on over there if you want to learn more about the dance style called Triple Two Step, and it’s related family of dances.
Songs for Triple Two Step
The Triple Two Song List is just the first of many. I plan on adding lists for the other country dance genres:
- Polka,
- Night Club Two Step,
- Cha-Cha,
- Waltz,
- Two-Step,
- East Coast Swing,
- West Coast Swing,
- Three Step aka as the Two-Step or “Texas Two Step”
- and Shuffle/Progressive Double Two.
See ya on the dance floor!
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Dancing: How much does it cost?
In some of my posts I’ve mentioned as an aside, that competitive dancing is not cheap. Because of that, a couple of the readers of this blog have emailed me to ask “Just how much does it cost?” To which I must answer, dearest readers, without qualification, and without my usual drama:
“A lot!”
I. Am. Not. Exaggerating. This wonderful exciting, fulfilling, passion is very expensive.
But it doesn’t have to be expensive, at least not at first:
- I am a competitive dancer and I’m working hard to progress to a point where I can “Turn Pro” meaning that my costs are on the high end of a cost spectrum which actually begins at almost zero.
.. - For someone just starting, who is curious and just checking out “this whole dance thing” it is possible to start with little or no cost.
.. - And most importantly, the money I’ve spent on dance has been worth every single penny. I would do it all over again, absolutely, without hesitation.
A while back I heard on NPR (National Public Radio) an interview with Karl Pillemer, the author of a new book: Thirty Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.
I recall from the interview, that the number one piece of advice which Older Americans would like to pass on to younger generations is
“You shouldn’t wait to do something
which you really want to do.“
Do it now. And dancing, dear readers, all four of you who are actually reading this blog, is definitely one of those things which should not wait until “Someday“. Do. It. Now. You have been given a royal decree by my inner domestic diva. If you don’t go and do some dancing she may throw her bon-bons at you!
But I digress… Back to to the topic at hand. 🙂
If you are one of those folks who demand “instant gratification” then scroll all the way to the bottom of this post for the “quick and dirty answer”. But if you want a more developed explanation of the costs then keep reading: Read the rest of this entry
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“World Championships” mean it’s time to plan for the coming Competition Year
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Heat # 55, bringing to the floor in Male Newcomer Pro-Ams, number 442 dancing with his pro….”
“Now for the dance of love… Polka!”
“Remember gentlemen, you’re supposed to gaze lovingly at her during the night club”
“Let’s hear it for our dancers” *applause*
“And in first place, our new World Champion in Male Newcomer Open…”
Ah, the sounds of competition at the UCWDC Country Dance World Championships, “Worlds” for short. The World Championships are held the first week of January each year and there are dancers from all over the world competing. This year it is in Orlando Florida. The dancers at the event have been working all year long toward this final event of the year, the culmination of 12 months of effort.
Screen capture from live broadcast of Worlds XX Femaile Newcomer Waltz
Just so you know, Worlds XX is actually going on right now; right this very minute in fact. I’m watching the Female Starter B and Female Newcomer Pro-Am competition right now as I type this, streaming live from GlobalDance.TV. They are just finishing Night Club and then they’ll do Cha-Cha, followed by the Waltz heats.
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A peek into the life of a competitive dancer…
I haven’t posted a lot here on my blog about dancing; most of my posts have been more focused on getting healthy. So here’s a “dancing” post for your enjoyment.
A couple of days ago I sent an email to my dance partner. We have a big dance competition coming up. It is the Dallas Dance Festival and it is widely considered to be the largest UCWDC Country Western Competition Dance Event in the US other than the World Championships. I know that a lot of dancers treat it as something of a “dress rehearsal” for Worlds. Anyway, so much for the background, now back to the email.
I realized that we only had six practices left before the competition so I thought “Hey, I’d better do some thinking about what needs the most work and figure out a tentative ‘schedule’ and send it to my partner to see what she thinks”. Create a “Game Plan” in other words.
She thought what I wrote was funny, printed it out and brought it to the dance studio to show the other dancers and our coaches. Everyone was amused, and then one of the coaches said to my partner “That’s funny, he should start a blog.” Well, since I already *have*a blog, and a couple other dancers also thought it was amusing, I thought I’d share it here with the dozen folks who are actually reading this blog. Enjoy!
Here is the email: Read the rest of this entry
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