"Erin Shore" by the Corrs
Steps by John Bauer
horatio@gmail.com

Congratulations.  You're one of about 15 people who will download
this: nobody gives a crap about Irish folk music redone by an Irish
pop band.  Still, I'm glad you're here.  I put in quite a bit of
effort on this one.

The dance teacher at my old school plays this song as the last waltz
for every big dance event.  It's a beautiful song that has become a
tradition for social dancing at Stanford.  The end of the song has
such a strong rhythm that he also uses it to teach redowa, a waltz
form where you basically run around the floor as fast as possible.

The original song introduces the melody, repeats the melody with more
energy, and then repeats it quietly to transition to the next section.
The next section leaves the original melody for a while, adding a lot
of buildup to the loud drum part near the end.  The final section adds
the loud drums to the original melody.  When I cut the song, I started
with the first energetic melody section.  I then used part of the
transition to lead directly into the loud drum section, the most
entertaining part of the piece.  Finally, I let the song end
naturally.  Hopefully you can't tell from listening exactly where the
cuts are.

The step difficulties are 2-4-5-8.  For the heavy steps, the beginning
listens mostly to the background, which gives a gentle enough start.
The steps really take off when the drums come in, though.  The medium
steps start off with a section that follows the melody.  The melody
has rhythms that are triplets, clearly between eighth notes and
sixteenth notes.  I can get perfects and marvelouses using twelvth
notes and listening to the music, so I'm pretty happy with this.  The
drum section has a lot of eighth notes, but the patterns aren't very
hard.  The last section mirrors the first section.  The other two step
charts both listen to the main downbeats to give easier versions for
new players.

I don't remember where I got the banner from, although it was
somewhere on a Google Image Search.  The background is supplied by
FreeFoto:

http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=15-64-6&k=The+Beach%2C+Bamburgh%2C+Northumberland

Font is from here:

http://www.fontspace.com/m%C3%A5ns-greb%C3%A4ck/mardian-demo

Please send feedback to John Bauer, horatio@gmail.com.

Enjoy!



Cuts: 
0:00.000 - 1:03.595
1:55.343 - 2:22.353
2:31.357 - 3:05.092
(3:05.119 looks like it gets the drum beat better, but then the tempo
 takes a weird spike)
