What
Does the Advanced Edition of the Player Do?
The Advanced Edition of the
DanceMaster Player adds a few nifty features to the Basic
bag of tricks. These include:
When you are teaching a dance, you can select, start and stop music
from the dance floor using a shirt-pocket size remote control, as
you can with a a mini-disk system. Unlike a mini-disk, however,
you can also change the volume of the music and/or cues, change
the speed, "skip" forward or back in the music by 10 seconds
at a time, set & jump to bookmarks.
You can have DanceMaster Advanced
keep track of your place in long or complicated dances - it will
scroll the cue card and highlight your next cue for you. Even better,
you can start the music at any point by selecting a figure on the
cue card and clicking "Play".
Each time you cue a dance, DanceMaster
makes a note of when and where it was cued, and how many people
danced it. That means that it can then tell you :
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When you last cued a given dance for a particular group.
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When and where you have ever cued a given dance.
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What dances you are doing a lot (overdoing?) or neglecting
at each place.
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What dances you have ever cued for any group
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What dances you did on a particular night.
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How many people typically get up for a given dance at a given
place.
You can also tell DanceMaster
Advanced to remind you to review certain dances every so
often (so the dancers don't forget how to do them).
DanceMaster Advanced
includes a timer that you can use to time refreshment breaks and
keep the dance flowing.
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