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Top Wedding Dance Music
Wedding dance music will form a large part of your reception and it will take up most of your evening after all the speeches and traditions are out of the way. You will need to enjoy the music that is played and choose songs that everyone loves to get the most people possible on the dance floor.
Choose some songs for every age to even get your grand parents dancing. Golden Oldies are always a hit, even with the younger generation and songs like the Twist or Time Warp will always be danced to and sung along to at any party. Going further back you can choose some songs from Elvis or the Beatles which are also known by the younger generations. Diana Ross the Supremes is fun to dance and sing to, as is the Jackson Five, and the Beach Boys.
Choose some modern dance music, trans, house or hip hop. These get people moving, and if you and your friends are into this kind of music then everyone will have a great time. Just be sure to mix it in with some other types of music to balance everything out. You don’t want certain groups of people to be left out and go home early because they are not enjoying the music.
Rock is also fun to dance to and many of the 80′s songs will appeal to everyone. Bon Jovi is one of the best bands to play at a wedding and they have cool love songs which are perfect too. There are tons of great songs that will make awesome wedding dance music. You can also go in a different direction and if you are doing a beach wedding, play marimba music or fun Spanish songs by Ricky Martin or Jennifer Lopez to create the right vibe.
Tap Solo Music – Selecting the Best Music to Suit Your Dancing Style
The first thing to do is know what will not work for you. Most Adjudicators at you local Dance Festival will be more mature ladies who have a great deal of dance experience as a performer or as a teacher. Typically, these ladies do not appreciate seeing ten year old girls pretending to be in their twenties performing provocative dances – you’d be surprised how many times I have seen it and cringed!
How good is your tapping?
You need to be honest with yourself here. Many tappers can dance to fast music, but all too often their dancing becomes a little untidy. It is usually better to dance to a slower piece of music to enable you to perform a quality routine rather than dance to something which may show off all your latest steps, but you’re not quite hitting the mark.
Conversely, if your music is too slow you may find yourself wobbling – this is also bad.
So, what works? In the 2009 All England championship the winners almost all used what would be considered to be “traditional” tap solo music. This would be not over orchestrated, usually medium tempo swingy/jazzy tunes or show-tunes. Whilst there is a market for tapping to the more modern music this is usually best left to the professionals.
So, if you are planning to dance a tap solo, duet, trio or group pay particular attention to your music. Choosing the right music can be as important or in some cases even more important than getting the costume right. Choreography should compliment the music and be sympathetic to the style of music.
Dance Music For the Wedding Reception
The most enjoyable part of the wedding reception is the dance music. When choosing dance music for your wedding, you need to decide if you want the services of a DJ or a band for your wedding.
For a church wedding, you could sit with the minister to decide on the music for each of the four sections of the wedding ceremony: The Prelude, The Processional, The Signing of the Register and The Recessional.
When you choose music for your wedding, you could decide the choice of music depending on the guests for your wedding and the trend for music. One option is to have an interesting mix of romantic melodies and party numbers as dance music for your wedding.
First the bride and bridegroom traditionally take the dance floor to a waltz. Then they take turns as the bride groom dances with his mother-in-law and then with his mother. The bride dances with her father-in-law and then with her father. The best man dances with the chief bridesmaid. The other bridesmaids join hands with the ushers. They are soon followed by the other guests.
You could have a live band, which are associated and favored for the ‘real music’, alternating with a disc jockey as he plays dance music for your wedding. The live band could play slow music and set the tempo for the fast paced danceable tracks, by the DJ. Hiring a DJ is less expensive than a real live band of professionals.
Listen to the tracks of the DJ or assess the live band before giving them a ‘Yes’ to perform dance music at the wedding reception. Their systems and equipment should be compatible with the venue. You could give a list of tracks which would be desired to be played and also the sequential order if you prefer.
In case the musicians or the Djs have to do an ‘encore’ you want to check to see if there will be any additional charge.