On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:22:05 -0800 (PST), Lyle Lofgren
<lylelofgren@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If the guitars ignored the fiddles and kept a steady beat instead of
trying
>to follow them, I suppose we'd keep on that previously-mentioned
>plateau where the fiddles are just ahead of a steady beat. Instead,
>being a living room band, everything accelerates. If we were playing
>for dances, it would be a problem,
I play for dances and depend on the guitars and or piano to hold me
back to large extent. Recently that failed to happen and the caller
was not happy. he insisted we start at a moderate tempo, but wouldn't
gicve a foot tap or count to tell me what he wanted. I ended up always
starting too slow and then enevitably sped up. the piano followed and
by the end we were off to the races.
In defence of the Piano player he'd not had a lot of experience
playing for dances and was getting sick that evening so not totally on
the ball.
On the other hand in another band our regular piano player was
replaced one evening with an extremely experienced dance player who
simply asked "would you like me to follow you or be the metronome", we
(two fiddles) opted for her to be metronomic and she sure showed us
where we sped up. She was like the gestapo in a box never varying from
the tempo she started at.
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