# Slow Slow Quick

> A beginner dance-routine planner for a song you pick - a first dance, a party dance-off or practice at home. Tap the song's beat, see which ballroom-style dances fit its tempo, and get a simple routine that fills the music phrase by phrase, drawn on a parquet dance floor.

URL: https://slow-slow-quick.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://slow-slow-quick.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- A tap-tempo pad (the middle gap of the last eight taps) and a count you can play at that tempo.
- A tempo ruler of eleven dances - slow sway, waltz, foxtrot, tango, rumba, cha-cha, Viennese waltz, quickstep, samba, jive and paso doble - each with its usual tempo range (approximate international-style competition tempos in beats per minute, treated as estimates; the slow sway's 60-130 is the page's own rule of thumb) and a fit for your tempo: in range, close enough (within 10%), half or double time, or does not fit (also when the beat is wrong: a waltz needs three beats to a bar, the rest four).
- The verdict, by a fixed rule, first match wins: switch the dance (it does not fit); otherwise keep it simpler (it fits only at half or double time, or it is a hard dance - Viennese waltz, quickstep, samba, jive, paso doble - for someone who has never danced); otherwise dance it as is.
- The phrase budget: the length you will dance cut into phrases of two bars (6 counts in three-beat music, 8 in four-beat music), with a time for every block.
- A sketch routine from a few beginner figures, drawn as a route round the floor (counter-clockwise, the line of dance), a footprint close-up of each block's kind of movement, and a count ribbon.
- Exports: Markdown, JSON and a count sheet as CSV; saved routines in the browser, or in your account when signed in.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: write the routine
- Three to ten blocks that add up to exactly the phrases in your music, each one figure repeated for a whole number of phrases, with its count, how it moves, a cue (and the partner's mirror for a couple) and how it follows the music.
- A practice plan for the days you have (at most five sessions) and two to four things to watch out for, starting with anything you asked to avoid.
- No lifts, dips, jumps, kicks or flips. The page re-checks every reply: the verdict and the dance against its own rule, the phrase total, the figure limit for your level, partner cues, travel on a small floor, the practice sessions, risky moves, and internal field names in the prose.

## Limits and honesty
- The tempo ranges are estimates; social dancing is looser than competition tempos. The footprints show the shape of a kind of movement, not an exact figure.
- The writer uses only what you typed and the page's tempo facts: no invented song moments, places or people, and no song, artist or show names.
- A practice aid, not a dance teacher; stop if anything hurts.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Write the routine".
- Trend it answers: on 21 October 2026 the English Wikipedia article on the current season of a US celebrity ballroom TV show had 151,353 page views, against an average of about 14,000 a day over 1-14 September (Wikimedia daily page-view counts).

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @dylantarre/rhythm-pacing (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@dylantarre/rhythm-pacing): musical flow for movement - dance sequences, choreography timing, contrast, build and rest.