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From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 85 12:55:56 EDT
Subject: Re: disco discussion
I always thought of 'disco' per se to be defined as 4 beats to the measure with bass on 1 and 3 and the third beat to be strongly accented. If I remember someone said the 4th beat which is more like the tango ('cept you add an extra beat). I know cause I had to play the shit in a cocktail band my summer out of high school. It's experiences like that which make a prospective music major go into engineering instead. {"Jim, a snappy Sambo beat, please!!!} _Jim_"Reunited"_Hofmann ... (I also can do Donna Summer and Tom Jones and