The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141130   Message #3246828
Posted By: Janie
30-Oct-11 - 12:52 AM
Thread Name: thumping the floor
Subject: RE: thumping the floor
My voice is gone, but my feet and hands still clap, as appropriate. Work songs, field hollers, gandy dancer chants, marching cadences, and many of the old, slow primative a cappella lined out hymns, sung to the same tempo it takes to spend the work day hoeing cotton or corn, are all built around the natural percussion of feet, hands, hoes, hammers.

Good solution, Bill.