Awesomesauce app

[icepixie]

This BPM-measurement widget for the Mac is WAY COOL. You tap the beat on your keyboard as the song plays, and it measures the beats per minute, then allows you to write it to the iTunes listing for the song. SO COOL. Grated, I have little practical use for it--although it might've helped narrow down the range of percentages to which I needed to speed or slow down footage in my recent vids--but I still think it's nifty.

(I've done enough rumba that I sometimes forget to tap on the "1" for songs in 4/4. Heh.)

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[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

For a moment, I thought "the '1'? doesn't she mean the '2'?", and then I realized "oh, she's talking about International Rumba!".

[icepixie]

...? Don't you start on "4" and skip the "1" in both? Or has it really been that long since I did American Rumba?

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that International Rumba skips the 1 and American Rumba skips the 2, and that this is what gives International Rumba its sexy, edgy feel and American Rumba its blocky, mechanical feel. But I could be wrong. I haven't danced either of them in, oh, three or four years now.

...gosh, has it really been that long?

[icepixie]

Muscle memory is telling me both skip on the 1. I'm 99% sure I remember moving forward or backward on the 2. I think Amer. Rumba gets the mechanical feeling from the basic being a friggin' box, gah.

I seem to recall either Salsa or Mambo skipping a weird beat. Maybe it was Salsa? I think that one skips 4, though.

...gosh, has it really been that long?

It has. Sadness. (There's a swing/charleston/lindy club in Knoxville that has free lessons every week. I keep meaning to check them out, but keep getting derailed by work. Maybe this semester...)