Customer Reviews

Square Dance Music And Calls

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I bought this CD expecting to use it at my square dance club, but it was worthless. There is no explanation of the calls. I asked an experienced caller to listen to it and he could make no sense of it. The first 6 tracks do provide background music if you're satisfied with that, which I am not. I recommend you tell shoppers this CD can't be used for Western Square Dancing.

This is a fun CD with calls on about half of the songs, but if you're not familiar with square dancing you'll need to supplement the CD with some kind of instruction book. The calls are more complicated than a novice (like me!) can easily figure out.

The music without calls (tracks 1 through 6) is good if you want background music for patter calling. The 7 through 12 tracks that have calling are not modern western square dancing calls. The calls are eastern square dance (barn dance) and not well suited to using the CD for modern Mainstream demonstration dancing in the absence of a caller. I find the first 6 music tracks useful (no calls), but have no use for the last 6 tracks.

THE SELECTIONS FROM 1 - 7 WERE GOOD BUT THERE THE ONES WITHOUT CALLS. THE LAST SELECTIONS HAD CALLS BUT THE MUSIC IS SLOW AND DRAGING. I WISH THERE WERE CALLS ON SELECTIONS 1 - 7.

I am KeysDAN from KeysDAN.com. I have an entertainment company. One of my functions is calling people to square dance. On one occasion I had some beginners to call for so I needeed some new tunes. This record was right on the money, Get this one for your square dance needs. You will be glad that you did.

It is extremely hard to find examples of Traditional Square Dancing as it is no longer danced or taught by todays Clubs and Callers. Tracks 2,4,5,7 which you can purchase on their own as a 99cent download are examples of this typle of Square Dance. The only caller I know of who is still teaching this is Tim Tyle from Texas. He called a workshop at a the Mid Tex Celebration in Austin Texas this last week and I've been looking for examples every since. It was GREAT fun and different!

The CD was in perfect condition, it came promptly, and it was exactly what I wanted.