[Tango-L] Double time

[Caroline Polack]

You're right, it's twice the tempo.

caroline


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jonathan Thornton" <obscurebardo at gmail.com>
To: "Caroline Polack" <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com>
CC: tango-l at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Double time
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:40:55 -0700

Carol and anyone else interested,

I found this definition:

*Double time*: A tempo twice as fast, with the time feel, bar lines and
chords moving at twice the speed.
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/glossary.html

As far as I recall double time really means playing the piece at twice the
tempo, say a song whose score says 60 bpm is played at 120 bpm, which would
mean half the time. There is also:

*Double time feel*: A time feel twice as fast, so that written eighth notes
now sound like quarter notes, while the chords continue at the same speed as
before.
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/glossary.html

I'm not sure what you mean by "twice the beat" but perhaps you are talking
about an eighth
note rhythm but that doesn't change the tempo.

Jonathan Thornton

On 7/25/06, Caroline Polack <runcarolinerun at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"Double time?
>I don't think its a case of playing a 4 minute song fast so that it takes
>2
>minutes.
>
>My understanding: The underlying beat doubles but the actual melody on top
>stays at the same pace. Imagine the singer keeps singing a ballad while
>the
>drummer plays it as a hoedown."
>
>Melroy is right - double time just means twice the beat but same length of
>song. Like sixteen beats instead of eight.
>

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