{"id":7491,"date":"2021-02-27T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2021-01-23T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T04:47:03","slug":"robertos-cha-cha-ballroom-dance-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/robertos-cha-cha-ballroom-dance-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto&#8217;s Cha Cha &#8211; Ballroom Dance Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYZCsh4CwKM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Roberto&#8217;s Cha Cha&#8221; Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). \u00a9 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote &#8220;Roberto&#8217;s Cha Cha&#8221; back when I was musical director and pianist for &#8220;Burn the Floor&#8221;, a modern Broadway Ballroom Dance show. It&#8217;s a straight ahead Cha Cha beat with classical nylon guitar, piano and percussion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While I was music director for &#8220;Burn the Floor&#8221;, I became friends with several of the dancers. I had the idea of writing new music to present to the Burn the Floor team and this song was one of the demo pieces. The dancer I was working with got called away at short notice to one of their international tours so we never actually finished the demos and never did a presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This song also has lyrics that I wrote in Italian (with the help of one of the dancers from Italy) and I think I remember recording the vocal demo, but I can&#8217;t find it anywhere. All I can find is this demo mix of the instrumental version. I would like to have been able to do a professional mix of the piece but I also like the rawness of this piece without any effects or processing.<\/p>\n<p>This song is also being released on my &#8220;Lost Tracks&#8221; album. Not all projects come to fruition. There are many projects I work on that stall before being finished. Often it&#8217;s because someone gets called away for a tour that takes all their focus. So that&#8217;s how you end up with 60 &#8220;Lost Tracks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this throwback to traditional Ballroom Dance, and also hope you enjoy the straight-ahead video of classic ballroom dancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Roberto&#8217;s Cha Cha&#8221; Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). \u00a9 2016. I wrote &#8220;Roberto&#8217;s Cha Cha&#8221; back when I was musical director and pianist for &#8220;Burn the Floor&#8221;, a modern Broadway Ballroom Dance show. It&#8217;s a straight ahead Cha Cha beat with classical nylon guitar, piano and percussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1WP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}