Country Waltz
Three-quarter time, one hundred percent swoon.
Country Waltz is a style from the Dust and Highway family. 90 BPM, Weirdness 12, Style Influence 89.
One-two-three of a slow embrace under barn lights. The country waltz stops the clock cold.
See lyrics written in this style →When to choose this style
Choose it when you want to slow-dance close with nowhere to be.
How it sounds
barn dance floor after the last song, warm string lights, hay bales, two empty chairs side by side
Palette: gold amber / wood coffee brown / ochre hay
- BPM
- 90 BPM
- Family
- Dust and Highway
- Serial
- PLV-25
- Rarity
- Common
- Style fidelity
- 89
- Sonic weirdness
- 12
Typical structure
[Intro] → [Verse] → [Chorus] → [Verse 2] → [Chorus] → [Waltz instrumental] → [Final chorus]
- ONE TWO THREE
- SLOW EMBRACE
Sample excerpt
One, two, three, and she leads because I never learned, one, two, three, in a kitchen at the end of a long day. No music playing, just her counting out loud, and the refrigerator humming in the key of us.
One, two, three, that's the whole dance, one, two, three, and we've been doing it for years. Nobody's watching, nobody has to, the counting is the point.
Workshop note — First person, present, intimate. The country waltz is written in three: the lyric must physically count and the phrases must divide by three. At 90 BPM keep each line to six or nine syllables, never eight.
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