I recently got my first gig playing at a bar every other saturday playing mainstream hip hop - pop/top 40 - house mashups... it's not a huge bar or anything but it pays some bills. i can tell people are diggin the music but i can't seem to get them to get out there and dance for some reason. it's kind of awkward and embarrassing for me and downright irritating that i'm spending my saturday night playing music so people can just nod their heads to it.
i know the whole routine (or at least i think i do!) where you should start out at a slower BPM then work your way up for the first hour to the house-ier stuff then transition back to the 80 bpm range and work your way back up and so forth for the night. but the crowd just still stands around talking with each other. it's like they don't even notice me.
what are some suggestions on how to get some people out there dancin? i am completely open to any suggestion that is thrown my way.
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