Good Choice

I believe that coming up with songs appropriate for each dance form is up to the DJ's experience as a dancer.  "This sounds like a cha cha to me."  His/her intuitive hunches are what make every DJ different.  There are no correct answers, and each DJ will have his/her unique sense of whether their tune choice works well for that dance, or not.  Then the dancers each have their unique sense of whether their dance choice works well for that tune, or not.  Everyone is following their hunches, but a part of this process is also objective:

After we come up with an intuitive guess, then we can easily check the tempo, to see if it's within 10% of the sweet spot tempo (below).

We easily tell whether it has a driving high energy or if it's gentle/lyrical, to match to the tempo being above or below the sweet spot.

But coming up with that first intuitive guess is what makes each DJ unique.  My tips don't want to influence that individuality.  The suggestions on this page are just to help increase the percentage of tunes that make the dancers happy.