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I got a letter yesterday that informs me that I won a free session of a Salsa class at a dance studio. You’d probably say, “But Dubi, with all that Colombian in you, your heart probably beats in that Salsa rhythm! Why do you need classes?” To that I would answer, “I need classes because I can’t dance Salsa or anything.” A few weeks ago I went to a dance class in Grant Park. The class was part of SummerDance and the person who was giving the class raffled a session of classes. I entered the raffle and that is how I won the class.
I know the basic steps of Salsa but I don’t know how to synch them to music.
Right now I am reading about ways to synch the music with a visual — the desired end result of the process would be a QuickTime file that flashes the number of what the count should be like (1 and 2 and 3 and 4) for dancing. Something between karaoke and Dance Dance Revolution. I imagine it to be like a .kar file (karaoke) but with music that is not midi and numbers instead of lyrics. A .kar file is a midi file with text tags added to it all along. The text is displayed in synch with the notes, turning the computer into a primitive karaoke machine. Here is a site with examples of a .kar file you can download.
The game plan is to find a way to mark a sound file with the beat and turn those marks into visual cues. If I am successful, I’ll let you know how I did it.
