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At many competitive dance studios, guest choreographers are invited to create routines for the most advanced students. If you are such a choreographer, and want to bring a unique world-class song remix to your students along with the unique world-class choreography you are creating, look no further than Squirrel Trench
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Have you ever noticed how hard it is to hear clearly in your studio's rehearsal space? As a teacher, are you constantly having to yell to be heard above the music? There is a reason for that: most dance studios' acoustic characteristics are about as bad as
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It's January, and that means that competitions are starting! For many of you, you may have already entered your first competition, or it may be a few weeks away. That first competition will be here before you know it! Well, you, the dance teacher, has spent hours upon
Audio Editing Tips
Most of the time, when you are editing modern music for your dance routines, it's already as loud as it can get. Make your edits, and you are done. But for some type of music, especially ballads, lyrical songs, movie soundtrack songs, or older Broadway showtunes, soft passages
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I'm in the middle of doing a couple of fun song remixes for the talent portion of a state pre-teen pageant, and I thought I'd take a second to explain how to avoid those annoying clicks and pops when editing music for competition or recital dance
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I love monitoring the search terms that people are using to find this Squirrel Trench Audio web site. And here's my new favorite: "best place for dance teachers to get unique music." YES! Squirrel Trench Audio IS the best place for dance teachers to get new,
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In addition to editing songs for use in dance competition and recitals, Squirrel Trench Audio also provides editing for competition or recital length for karaoke songs. These songs are typically used for students who perform in the vocal portion of a competition, or display their singing skills at recitals. For
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Many competitive dancers are looking for ways to break through to higher scoring at dance competitions. Hours upon hours of rehearsal, of focused practice, is the number one requisite to winning. In addition to practice, much effort and thought goes into creating the perfect costume. Don't overlook the
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Occasionally someone arrives on this site by googling for something like "song length for dance competitions." While there is no definitive answer, I can give you some guidance. The most important thing you can do to determine the allowable length of your song is to check the competition
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I know you are out there, and you are frustrated. You are a busy dance teacher, and you've got a boatload of choreography you have to create and teach. And in addition, you have to pick out the perfect music for each of your groups and soloists. Now
Audio Editing Tips
It's been a pleasure, a joy, and labor of love creating the Beatles remix called Somehow Someway. I can't wait to see the choreography for this routine performed at Regionals and National dance competitions in 2012. I'd thought I'd give folks a
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In addition to cutting, editing, and remixing music for dance routines, I thoroughly enjoy cutting, editing and remixing music for floor gymnastic routines as well. It's basically the same process, but in gymnastics the routines are shorter (a maximum of 1:30), and lyrics are not allowed. Here&