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An idea for Dave Arch to pick up on
Harry Connick Jr getting the audience to clap on the off-beat, by means of a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinR...ature=youtu.be |
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That really is quite brilliant. The only trouble is it would throw the dancers by adding an extra beat. Clapping on the 1 & 3 by the audience really does drive me insane though.
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Harry Connick Jr getting the audience to clap on the off-beat, by means of a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinR...ature=youtu.be But it isn't a practical suggestion because the change in time, would be a problem for the dancers. The simplest solution is that if the BBC were concerned about the clapping, it would be easy enough to use a floor manager with some sense of rhythm to start the audience off on the correct beat. But they don't, so obviously the BBC doesn't care. |
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Or better still, just stop the clapping altogether.
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Or better still, just stop the clapping altogether.
Some like it some don't. You won't stop the audience clapping, it isn't practical. Maybe the BBC doesn't want to be seen as being either for or against it, so don't get involved. Either way, it obviously isn't of any consequence to them, that people clap on the wrong beat, hasn't been for years.. |
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A lot of complaints about the clapping have been made on this forum.
Some like it some don't. You won't stop the audience clapping, it isn't practical. Maybe the BBC doesn't want to be seen as being either for or against it, so don't get involved. Either way, it obviously isn't of any consequence to them, that people clap on the wrong beat, hasn't been for years.. |
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Have a designated Clapper. Someone who will lead clapping on the 2 and get the audience to follow. That's how we did it in panto recently. Rather than risk shoddy 1 & 3 clapping, performers lead the clap and the audience joined in.
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I've linked that "rhythm displacement," video in different threads about the music at least a couple of times this year, when the clapping on the "wrong" beat has been mentioned and once last year.
But it isn't a practical suggestion because the change in time, would be a problem for the dancers. |
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Hmmm. Pasha and Naga did their Tango to the Mission Impossible theme which is entirely in 10/8, and the displacement could always be put as part of an intro while the dancers were "faffin' about" (Copyright Goodman).
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Hmmm. Pasha and Naga did their Tango to the Mission Impossible theme which is entirely in 10/8, and the displacement could always be put as part of an intro while the dancers were "faffin' about" (Copyright Goodman).
Just checked ..... no clapping, but they were got to cheer at some random point in the dance. |
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Or better still, just stop the clapping altogether.
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Or better still, just stop the clapping altogether.
I want to hear the band. And watch the dancers interpret the music of the band and not that of the clappers. |
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Is that audience French, by any chance?
They are known around the world for clapping off beat. |
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I've linked that "rhythm displacement," video in different threads about the music at least a couple of times this year, when the clapping on the "wrong" beat has been mentioned and once last year.
But it isn't a practical suggestion because the change in time, would be a problem for the dancers. The simplest solution is that if the BBC were concerned about the clapping, it would be easy enough to use a floor manager with some sense of rhythm to start the audience off on the correct beat. But they don't, so obviously the BBC doesn't care. But whoever decided audience clapping should be part of the show should jolly well go and conduct it - the clapping is so late, late late late it almost arrives on the 2 and the 4. |
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No the dancers would not be put off - they just choreograph an extra beat on a hold or a twist et voilą, it's done.
But whoever decided audience clapping should be part of the show should jolly well go and conduct it - the clapping is so late, late late late it almost arrives on the 2 and the 4. It'd be chaos to tell the dancers and the band to "wait and see what happens, before we make a decision." |
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