What makes music challenging to dance to?

[spindr]

Apologies for the self-referential quote:

Originally posted by spindr For challenging (and somewhat inspiring) Sharkira's "Whenever, wherever" is "interesting" in that the tempo feels almost too slow to dance single time, but too fast to double time -- so I tend to switch around -- but it feels a bit uncomfortable.

Learnt a new word -- thanks to a bout of insomnia, and a late night world service program on percussion -- polyrhythm. Layers of instruments playing in the same time signature, but playing different rhythms.

I think the problem I raised above was the challenge of picking which instrument or rhythm to dance to, and lead.

SpinDr.

P.S. according to last night's teacher: really good tango leaders will let their follower pick which instrument the follower wants to dance to... but then he keeps muttering things like "...well in five or so year's time..."

[Sheepman]

Originally posted by ChrisA
How about "Hard workin' man" by Brooks and Dunn.

This one took me a few hearings to get into, but is well worth a try.

Greg