Dressage to Music - how do you do your floorplan?

[DirectorFury]

Just a general musing today while imagining all that I'll do when I can ride again (no doubt the horse will promptly break they day after I get the all-clear but one can dream!).

Do you do your floor plan first and then find music to fit it? Or get the music then do the floor plan? Or pay someone else for it to be their problem?

 

[silv]

Not sure if everyone does it the same,

In my case I found music to suit my horse then devised a test to show off our best movements within the criteria, then had a friend edit it to fit the timings.

There are quit a few online sites with music suggestions etc.

Good luck, it is great fun!

 

[Madali]

I had help from my trainer to come up with the floor plan. We videoed it and then I played lots of songs I liked to try and match the music to my horse and the plan.
This was fun.
The complicated bit was getting the music downloaded. Very difficult and you need to be very techno savvy.
I know now why companies charge so much.
I got one of my engineers at work to do it for me. Cost a couple of bottles of wine instead of £150 which I understand to be the going rate.
Did my very first DTM yesterday and absolutely loved it. Judge loved my music. So it was worth the effort.

 

[ester]

video all paces, either watch with possible music or metronome floorplan, video, fit the music usually. I think macs come with useable software but as a pc user I used to use audacity which allows you to play with the tempos etc too.

 

[quizzie]

video all paces, either watch with possible music or metronome floorplan, video, fit the music usually. I think macs come with useable software but as a pc user I used to use audacity which allows you to play with the tempos etc too.

Second the use of Audacity.....I have just done my first DTM, downloaded and edited my own music, teaching myself as I went along......and I am a complete techno illiterate !! I'm sure someone who knew what they were doing could have done it better/much quicker, but it certainly meant i knew my music well when I went out and did my 1st test with it last weekend.

 

[milliepops]

I paid someone to help she was more imaginative than I would have been , though now I feel happy to tweak it. It was the floorplan that I felt least confident about doing myself.
I'm waiting for a clinic to come up with Gaynor colbourn that I can get to for a new one, got chatting to her at YHL last year and was really impressed. She plays music on her keyboard while you ride in the arena and has ridden GP so an adv med test for me should be a piece of cake, hehe

In the meantime kira is going dancing to my Equivisions music next week, eeeek!

 

[daffy44]

Floorplan first, write it, video it, then play around with music to find what is the best fit for the horse.

 

[HappyDayz]

I'm waiting for a clinic to come up with Gaynor colbourn that I can get to for a new one, got chatting to her at YHL last year and was really impressed. She plays music on her keyboard while you ride in the arena and has ridden GP so an adv med test for me should be a piece of cake, hehe

I finally have my Gaynor clinic coming up, I've tried to sort a floor plan for myself and never like it. Hopefully she will play things to suit my horse and me. Very excited to have my music sorted for me.

 

[leflynn]

I started with a floorplan first, then got all confused and indecisive - thankfully ror had a space on a clinic so we're part way through that and the order was floorplan, video it, find music then tweak to fit

 

[Britestar]

I'm music first them floor plan.
I think it's just what you get used to. Also my horse hates certain types of music so I need to find something he likes.