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Competition music, explained
Guides on figure skating program rules across Europe, how to edit your program music, and music cutting industry gossip.
Figure Skating Music Copyright: How to Get the Rights to Your Song
Do figure skaters need a music license? A clear guide to the copyrights involved, how clearance depends on your federation, and how to legally use your song.
Read articleCreating a Choreographed Sequence With Simple Elements in Figure Skating
A choreographed sequence is a part of the program that gives you the opportunity to show your unique skills, flexibility, and creativity through spirals, choreographic movements, and choreo jumps performed in the dynamic of the program music.
Read articleHow to Find Figure Skating Music
A practical guide to choosing figure skating music: where to look, what the rules allow, how long the cut needs to be, and how to match a piece to the skater.
Read articleHow to Cut Figure Skating Music?
Cutting figure skating music is more than making a song shorter. The goal is to create competition-ready music that feels complete and natural while fitting the required program length.
Read articleThe 9 Best Figure Skating Music Cutting Tools (Plus Pros & Cons)
A side-by-side comparison of the most popular tools for editing figure skating program music (Audacity, Adobe Audition, GarageBand, Reaper and more), with pros, cons and screenshots, plus where Katja fits in.
Read articleCommon Figure Skating Music Editing Mistakes
Creating competition music is not as simple as shortening a song to fit within a time limit. Small editing decisions can have a significant impact on how a program feels on the ice.
Read articleHow Figure Skating Music Production Works
Music plays a crucial role in every successful figure skating program. While audiences experience the finished performance on the ice, the music behind the performance has often gone through a detailed editing process long before competition day.
Read articleWhat are the Most Commonly Used Music for Figure Skating Programs?
Music from The Phantom of the Opera, Carmen, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Scheherazade, Pirates of the Caribbean, Les Misérables, and Moulin Rouge appears regularly at competitions around the world.
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