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JiveMasters 2004 - Music

During the rounds each couple will dance two pieces of music picked in random from the following lists. The music will be restricted to a maximum of 2 minutes and a 10 second warning will be given before the music is faded.

The selection of music has been chosen to enable the dancers to show off their skills at the various extremes of Jive tempos. The music is in a mixture of styles, which will also test the adaptability of the dancers to be able to perform in different idioms, from the silky smoothness of Dusty Springfield to the hard driving R&B of the Love Dogs. In addition each piece has some substance, with breaks & feels to allow musicality to be demonstrated.

These were the rules used in the selection:

a) Music in slow section is to be between 110 - 120 bpm
b) Music in the fast section is to be between 150 - 160 bpm
c) Music must be well known on the dance circuit
d) Music must have scope for musicality
e) Music must cover as many different styles as possible

Slow Section

1) Over You	Will Young	119bpm
2) Sixteen Tons	Tom Jones	110bpm
3) Spooky	Dusty Springfield	110bpm
4) Wade in the Water	Eva Cassidy	111bpm
5) Don't get around much	Steve Tyrell	112bpm
6) Maddest Kind of Love	Voodoo Daddies	112bpm
7) Why don't you do right	Sienad O'Conner	112bpm
8) Mustang Sally	Commitments	115bpm
9) Smooth	Santana	117bpm
10) Business of Love	Domino	118bpm

Fast Section

1) Soul Bossa Nova	Quincy Jones	153bpm
2) La Bamba	Los Lobos	155bpm
3) Crazy Little thing called Love	Queen	153bpm
4) Closer to the Bone	Sam Butera	154bpm
5) Stormy Weather	Royal Crown Revue	155bpm
6) Safronia B	Love Dogs	155bpm
7) ABC of Love	Louis Hoover	152bpm
8) The Snake	Al Wilson	150bpm
9) It takes Two	Marvin Gaye	152bpm
10) Shake your Tailfeather	Blues Brothers	159bpm

Further Note:

The type of music that people like is varied and no-one person is likely to be happy with every track in this list. However this is irrelevant for the purposes of this selection, as this is not a social dance list and has been compiled to enable to test and show off the abilities of the competitors.

It should also be noted that there are no current Chart tracks in the list. This was considered at length but the latest trend in music is for modern "R&B" which falls outside the tempo ranges at about 100bpm. The club versions of these records are all around the 130 -140 bpm level which again falls outside our selection criteria. To cover this gap the music in the final will included a section for dance tracks in the range 125 -140 bpm.