![]() ![]() Once your timing is solid on the basic, and while following, play around with the basic by varying different portions of it to mirror the dominant instrument you hear I especially recommend any afro-cuban rumba training since you can actually use the same exact moves for salsa shines, and in your basic or styling It will also help with timing and body movement (see body isolation thread). Since salsa is very driven by percussion, learning how to feel and move to these intruments is a good idea. Most African dance, or Afro-latin (afro-brazillian, afro-cuban, afro-pervian, bomba) or carribean dance classes have this. take dance classes that are accompanied by drumming. timing is part of musicality, get timing CDs if you struggle with that yes listen to music a lot, not just salsa, anything that has good beats (reggaetton, samba, hip-hop, west african highlife, zouk, etc) ![]() Some great dancers might make dancing look beautiful and easy, but that's almost always after untold hours of practice behind closed doors.Ĭlick to expand. I've never encountered anybody who has the musicality aspect of any partner dance entirely in his/her genes. There's even an unconcious cultural learning that happens as well, like certain flairs that "everybody knows" come from Swing (or Tango or whatever), or recognizing the impact of a dip at a certain point in the music. Sometimes it's by trial-and-error or watching others. Particularly in the context of a partner dance, I think that musicality is almost entirely "learned," even if not entirely by formal classes. I also had to learn ways of making the change artistically pleasing to my partner or a third-party observer. To interpret the music even better, I had to learn other steps to coincide with different types of musical changes (tempo, instrumentation, vocals, etc.). To then interpret the music at the most basic level, I had to learn some way of making my current step change whenever the music changed. Using my favorite dance, Salsa, as an example - I had to learn the basic step, the musical structure, and how the steps fit into that musical structure. Everything else that contributes to my "musicality" had to be learned. I think I'm one of those people who was lucky enough to be born with an innate sense of timing but, even so, I think timing for the purpose of dance can be learned. Timing might be innate, and artistry can be innate, but moves/steps for any partner dance have to be learned. Being able to interpret music properly includes having at least (1) a sense of timing, (2) a decent-sized repetoire of moves, and (3) an artistic sense. ![]() To me, "musicality" is another word for music interpretation. Click to expand.I disagree, perhaps because I might have a different definition of musicality. ![]()
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