kallistar Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Hi everyone, Now as the topic suggests I am in need of ideas for some music for an older dog so that we can do Heelwork to music. I am thinking that a slow to medium beat would suit both my dog and myself. This is for starters as I would love to try this for the Melbourne Royal.. Can anyone suggest some songs? I must admit that I do like John Farnham and was thinikng about Burn for you Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC4ME Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 For a royal I would use music that is a little more lively something that people can sing along with or clap along to, it's nice to have audience support. Here's a few just off the top of my head When I'm 64 - Beatles How Lucky Can You Get - Hot Shoe Shuffle These Boots Are Made for Walking - many different versions of this Stand By Me - Ben E King Fever - Michael Buble or the Peggy Lee version is also very good Any slow marching music is also good. At the moment I am doing James Bond with my young boy Styler and Black Box by Stan Walker with my older boy Chook they both have one qallie in HTM starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 For a royal I would use music that is a little more lively something that people can sing along with or clap along to, it's nice to have audience support. Here's a few just off the top of my head When I'm 64 - Beatles How Lucky Can You Get - Hot Shoe Shuffle These Boots Are Made for Walking - many different versions of this Stand By Me - Ben E King Fever - Michael Buble or the Peggy Lee version is also very good Any slow marching music is also good. At the moment I am doing James Bond with my young boy Styler and Black Box by Stan Walker with my older boy Chook they both have one qallie in HTM starters. thank you very much for your suggestions BC4ME I will be trying my luck with my Aussie and fingers will be crossed that we remember the small routine on the day as we both can have senior moments. I would love to have a stab at Freestyle, but I don't think that three weeks is long enough for me to get a routine down pat as of yet. thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Kallistar - my advice enter the freestyle and have a go as well. For starters you only need a routine that is just over a minute and freestyle is heaps of fun and not that difficult if the dog will string together a few tricks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Kallistar - my advice enter the freestyle and have a go as well. For starters you only need a routine that is just over a minute and freestyle is heaps of fun and not that difficult if the dog will string together a few tricks . Hi Ness, is it possible to get a routine together in just 3 weeks and have it down pat????? What sort of things would you need to do?? Music? The entry for the Melb. Royal closes next Thursday hence why I am asking. I now know what I am going to do for HTM )) Just got to teach Tux that he can work on my right side too, all this in just three weeks due to me going away on hols next week. Another question for you all, in HTM are you allowed to take a target stick in for a routine? I did start today using my "baton" which worked ok apart from Tux mouthing and biting (he loves to retrieve stuff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) Kallistar I put together 4 routines in a month - I won't say they were brilliant we ended up with 4 passes out of 8 at the trial - and a couple of placings. One of the failures was because my young girl had a meltdown in her first routine but she is nervy (and that was a HTM routine). My older girl failed her HTM and also one of her freestyle - not sure why she failed her freestyle as it was better then the one she passed and missed out on a pass by a point. Yep you can use a target stick in a HTM routine. For freestyle anything really goes - I did Surfin USA with my old girl. Used a body board - sent her to it and had her do COP on it, spins, twists, called her to me and had her put her paws up on it, jump over the top of it, weave around it. My youngsters freestyle routine was to Step in Time. I used a cardboard box and created a chimney (that was entertaining to get to Sydney on the plane) and then had a target stick with a cardboard cut out top as a chimney sweep brush. She did things like run around the target stick (I had a base made for it that it rested in), we heeled around the chimney, I had her jump the chimney, we had leg weaves etc. I am just polishing that routine for a try-out for the Royal on the weekend (we don't have proper comps here yet). Nothing like leaving things to the last minute - she hasn't done much DWD in ages and I have only spent this week doing a routine and its still a work in progress. She has a number of moves just not sure where I want them. Some of the new moves include - using the "chimney" which is now a little more solid as an object to place paws on and pivot around while I am standing in front, she will also jump over the top of it and I can send her into a 2o2o position where she will put her back paws on the chimney and have her front paws on the ground (that was last nights new trick and tonight its reliable). Hoping to include her fetching me the sweep brush at the end of the routine and a few other bits and pieces. She now also circles the sweep brush while I circle the other direction. My main problem seems to be not having to do running repairs on my props after each training session she is just trashing them. My proper chimney casing won't get used until the day of the Royal if she gets into the demo team. ETA. Starters routines only need to go for a minute and one of the workshops I attended suggested you only really need 4 different tricks for a starters freestyle routine and link those together and there you have it. Your dog obviously has a solid background in obedience so I wouldn't imagine it would be overly complicated. Have you done any rear end awareness/pivot work. You can use a small footstool or something and have the dog pivot in position or pivot in front - that counts for a "trick". Edited August 25, 2011 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Kallistar I put together 4 routines in a month - I won't say they were brilliant we ended up with 4 passes out of 8 at the trial - and a couple of placings. One of the failures was because my young girl had a meltdown in her first routine but she is nervy (and that was a HTM routine). My older girl failed her HTM and also one of her freestyle - not sure why she failed her freestyle as it was better then the one she passed and missed out on a pass by a point. Yep you can use a target stick in a HTM routine. For freestyle anything really goes - I did Surfin USA with my old girl. Used a body board - sent her to it and had her do COP on it, spins, twists, called her to me and had her put her paws up on it, jump over the top of it, weave around it. My youngsters freestyle routine was to Step in Time. I used a cardboard box and created a chimney (that was entertaining to get to Sydney on the plane) and then had a target stick with a cardboard cut out top as a chimney sweep brush. She did things like run around the target stick (I had a base made for it that it rested in), we heeled around the chimney, I had her jump the chimney, we had leg weaves etc. I am just polishing that routine for a try-out for the Royal on the weekend (we don't have proper comps here yet). Nothing like leaving things to the last minute - she hasn't done much DWD in ages and I have only spent this week doing a routine and its still a work in progress. She has a number of moves just not sure where I want them. Some of the new moves include - using the "chimney" which is now a little more solid as an object to place paws on and pivot around while I am standing in front, she will also jump over the top of it and I can send her into a 2o2o position where she will put her back paws on the chimney and have her front paws on the ground (that was last nights new trick and tonight its reliable). Hoping to include her fetching me the sweep brush at the end of the routine and a few other bits and pieces. She now also circles the sweep brush while I circle the other direction. My main problem seems to be not having to do running repairs on my props after each training session she is just trashing them. My proper chimney casing won't get used until the day of the Royal if she gets into the demo team. ETA. Starters routines only need to go for a minute and one of the workshops I attended suggested you only really need 4 different tricks for a starters freestyle routine and link those together and there you have it. Your dog obviously has a solid background in obedience so I wouldn't imagine it would be overly complicated. Have you done any rear end awareness/pivot work. You can use a small footstool or something and have the dog pivot in position or pivot in front - that counts for a "trick". Thanks Ness.. Yes Tux has done rear end awareness. I can spin in the middle of him while he is spinning around me. But it backfires on me sometime in the trial ring as he has been known to circle me on a finish ( very cute and I try not to laugh when he does it) So I could do a sendaway recall.. spin right/left, backing up and side step ( if he is in the mood). I would of loved to of done a waltz with him but can't find the right song. Thought of Singing in the rain, but he bites the umbrella trying to retrieve it. So you can see I am stuck.. The good thing is the ring size is 15 x 15. I have the weekend to come up with a song that we can do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 you have longer then me I have to get something together between now and this Saturday . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) What about some of the Harry Potter stuff - I wanted to do something like that for the Royal but couldn't find anything fast enough to suit my girl who likes to do things at a million miles an hour. I used Bippidy Boppidy Boo as one of my HTM songs. Edited August 25, 2011 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 you have longer then me I have to get something together between now and this Saturday . ahh but you have experience on your side and I don't And Harry Potter???? If you was going to use a John Farnham number what would you use?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) Experience hmm not really . Maybe I could gatecrash your thread and get some help with my demo routine - off listening to John Farnham and will get back to you. Age of Reason??? First 1 min 22 has a natural break. Thats Freedom?? First 1 min 20 again. What about Men at Work - Land Down Under Edited August 25, 2011 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC4ME Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Try looking for ballroom waltz CD they will have plenty of waltz's both fast and slow. How are you searching for your music? I use ITunes very simple and easy to search for songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Experience hmm not really . Maybe I could gatecrash your thread and get some help with my demo routine - off listening to John Farnham and will get back to you. Age of Reason??? First 1 min 22 has a natural break. Thats Freedom?? First 1 min 20 again. What about Men at Work - Land Down Under thanks for those suggestion Ness Will have to listen to them again and try and work something out by the end of Saturday night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Try looking for ballroom waltz CD they will have plenty of waltz's both fast and slow. How are you searching for your music? I use ITunes very simple and easy to search for songs. I have only been searching through my music and my daughters.. I have never used ITunes so don't know much about it. Is it a free app? Thanks once again BC4ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Well I have half my routine planned the other half I guess I'll just wing it and see what works - they probably won't ask me back again after my little opinionated BC "talks" her way through it anyway . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Well I have half my routine planned the other half I guess I'll just wing it and see what works - they probably won't ask me back again after my little opinionated BC "talks" her way through it anyway . LOL... I know that feeling.. But I wonder what they would do if you did "How much is that doggy in the window' and got your dog to bark on the WOOF WOOF part of the song. I believe that the dogs are not suppose to vocalise that they are happy ((( when they do DWD.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 No my young girl had 1 judge take 2 off one of her starters routines which I can only guess was for barking the rest weren't to bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 No my young girl had 1 judge take 2 off one of her starters routines which I can only guess was for barking the rest weren't to bothered. So how did your DWD demo go Ness??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Was only try outs for the Royal and Kenz was the star . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Was only try outs for the Royal and Kenz was the star . That is good to hear that Kenz is the star of the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now