And the dancer said, let there be choreography!

[badseed1980]

And there was choreography! And it was pretty ok!

1. I found a taxim I like on iTunes, and will need some help from someone with an editing tool (dahveed76, honey? Can you help me out with this again maybe?) to chop it at 54 seconds where there's a nice long pause that works as an ending. Then I need to burn it to CD with "Hoplanda" with no gap.

2. I am not choreographing a taxim. Fuck that. What's the point? I'll dance to it. If AJ has some pointers about what she'd like to see where, I'll use those as guidelines, but a whole choreo? No way, man. Not gonna happen.

3. This makes the middle bit of "Hoplanda" easier too, since that's taxim. I'll do one that's a bit higher energy than the intro taxim, maybe working in some spins too. But again, no choreo. Fortunately, it's very easy to tell when the taxim is coming to an end.

4. If the end of "Hoplanda" repeats the beginning, it's even easier still! Honestly, with a song this wild and fast, I don't want to wear myself out doing eighty million different things.

Cool. I'm sure it will need work, but there are several weeks left to the recital.

Comments

[nacht_musik]

If you don't need to add any kind of fade-out, you can chop it yourself using iTunes -- go into the info window for that song (on the mac, File => Get Info), and go to the "Options" tab, and set a stop time for the track. You want something like 0:54.123, if you want to end it at 54.123 seconds. (And you can configure iTunes to burn the songs with no gap between.) Definitely cruder than sound-editing software, but it can work just fine if you're patient.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome. Thanks! The help function on iTunes was bloody useless for getting that info.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm trying this now. I'm TRYING to be patient, but whenever I set the stop time (click the checkbox next to stop time and enter the time I want it to stop and click "ok"), it just resets it to the total song length.