I've been dancing as a follow on and off for 15 years and tried understanding the structure of songs, but my musicality has always sucked. This is the best explanation I've ever heard that ties together how the different layers of a song all come together to help you figure out the phrasing and breaks. Thank you for making this!
As a complete bachata beginner, I am blown. I've watched it three times already, took my notes, then l listened to my playlist and tried to find everything you told us about. That is amazing! So much valuable information in one video. It is incredibly generous of you to share all this. Thank you, guys! You're amazing!
Great! Found that amazing explanation today... got a few new hints into musicality which I really appreciate. if you want such stuff in your regular classes, you might visit west coast swing classes... this dance needs that understanding and uses phrases a lot... so I found such musicality teachings a lot at WCS festivals...
*Here might be a joke about your singing* 🤭 if serious- thank you very much for that breaking down, it's very valuable information. Today I'm going to social, so gonna pay attention and try to execute breaks :)
This is great! I ve been learning bachata for some time now and never heard someone explaining this so clearly. Thank you so much for your hard work 💚 Being cheeky, but any any chance you can do a video explaining more about how to express instruments (portrait instruments) while dancing? Xx
i have a question- when you are talking about understanding the breaks you have the last half(the bottom row of 1-2-3-4) highlighted as a possible break. So if the instrument comes in on the 5 then how do you know that instrument is a 5 and not a 1? (assuming the break is only 1-2-3-4 and not 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8?) Should you wait a whole bar 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 to see or does that scenario not exist because I am confused as you said initially when an instrument plays its a 1.
Guys what you are explaining here technically correct, very good points. It shows how informed you are about structure of songs. I appreciate. However, the way you explain this is fundamentally wrong. This is a message to audience :) Never calculate, never estimate Never count 1-2-3-4 Never ever count 32, this is crazy One should dance by feelings, not with counts and calculations Think about yourself, if people don’t see you feeling the dance whereas they keep telling: “How well a bachata star feels the music, the dance is in their blood…” There should be something wrong. Maybe it’s this counting approach?
Thank you for your input. It's important to realise that when we say to count we dont say to count for ever. It's just during the learning process. At some point people just stop counting. But like you said, it's technically correct, so then, people should learn. It's important not go just by feeling because if your feeling is wrong (not wrong, just not corresponding the structure of the song- feeling is not ever wrong)then you will be dancing out of rhythm (or out of the structure of the song) and the other person you are dancing with will not enjoy. This is for social dance which means that both have to be dancing together. Furthermore,it's not counting until 32 while you are dancing. It's to count until 32 when you are doing the exercise we talked about so they learn the intrinsicacies of the music and understand what does it change during that last 8. It's not crazy, it's learning. And you cant say to students to never count 1-2-3-4 if then in a dance class we are starting each class with 5-6-7-8 let's go 1-2-3-4. We are not dancing in the video we are teaching for people to learn. And during learning moment, 100% you sould count.
Actually after someone explained song structure to me my dancing became so much better. I don't necessarily count until 32 but I realize what's coming, aware about breaks etc.
@@gennady5942 Thank you for the input. This is good and expected. When you understand the general structure of the music you will be better prepared for what is coming. As you said you don't necessarily count, that's the point! I totally agree with author in terms of this breakdown. I would like to see one example from your social dances. Do you have it somewhere online?
@@FelipeyTiagoRoleRotation People tend to repeat the exercises during parties. If you teach them counting at classes they will count at parties. I keep seeing such examples around me all the time. With "feeling" I don't mean random feelings. Feeling the rhythm means recognising 1, 2, 3 and 4 separately by their specific features. One should be able to recognise 3 and 4 without counting from 1. Also a move can be done with different counts. When you teach by counting you force them to NOT dance to the song by definition :)
@@TropicalMood ..you are such a non sense person: isn't this a video of you explaining the Bachata rhythm with tones of counting stuff... plus making everything more complex than what it could really be?!?🤣🤣 ruclips.net/video/OsRSxjIHfJ8/видео.html
Thanks a lot for such detailed information
Please do such videos so that it will be very helpful 🙂
I've been dancing as a follow on and off for 15 years and tried understanding the structure of songs, but my musicality has always sucked. This is the best explanation I've ever heard that ties together how the different layers of a song all come together to help you figure out the phrasing and breaks. Thank you for making this!
Thank you so much
Very nice video and good quality information.
I am from LA and no one teaches this kind of stuff. I truly grateful for you guys for making this video! Very useful
Demetrio and Nicole from BDA at Stevens Steakhouse teaches this in their MasterClasses.
As a complete bachata beginner, I am blown. I've watched it three times already, took my notes, then l listened to my playlist and tried to find everything you told us about. That is amazing! So much valuable information in one video. It is incredibly generous of you to share all this. Thank you, guys! You're amazing!
Thank you so much ❤
Thanks a lot for the thorough explanation! Definitely one of the best if not outright *the* best explanation on RUclips!
Great explanation. Thanks for the video
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You are amazing!!!! Love from India...what a simplistic explanation for beginners!
Great! Found that amazing explanation today... got a few new hints into musicality which I really appreciate. if you want such stuff in your regular classes, you might visit west coast swing classes... this dance needs that understanding and uses phrases a lot... so I found such musicality teachings a lot at WCS festivals...
This is great!
*Here might be a joke about your singing* 🤭
if serious- thank you very much for that breaking down, it's very valuable information. Today I'm going to social, so gonna pay attention and try to execute breaks :)
Nice video! It was nice to see the separate instruments and then combined, it helps me to listen better.
Awesome to me! Very detailed. Thanks so much!
Musicality is very important when starting to dance! Good job 😉 😚
Very usefull and important lesson! Greets from Poland! 🇵🇱
Great class thanks
A high valuable video guys! Thanks a lot!
thank you!
This is great! I ve been learning bachata for some time now and never heard someone explaining this so clearly. Thank you so much for your hard work 💚
Being cheeky, but any any chance you can do a video explaining more about how to express instruments (portrait instruments) while dancing? Xx
Hi :) thank you so much. We will try to make time to make a video on that for sure 🥰
Great english speaking skills! 😉
It's very informative sir, Thanks a lot
Thank you for watching ♥️
i have a question- when you are talking about understanding the breaks you have the last half(the bottom row of 1-2-3-4) highlighted as a possible break. So if the instrument comes in on the 5 then how do you know that instrument is a 5 and not a 1? (assuming the break is only 1-2-3-4 and not 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8?) Should you wait a whole bar 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 to see or does that scenario not exist because I am confused as you said initially when an instrument plays its a 1.
9:23 at the strong 1 right? Is there such a thing as a strong 8?
puedes traducirlo al español ? seria genial
Si yah esta ese video tambien 🥰😜 espera que te lo envio para ser mas facil
ruclips.net/video/IrNaykfd9zg/видео.html aqui dejo
@@FelipeyTiagoRoleRotation , muchas gracias ¡¡¡¡
Guys what you are explaining here technically correct, very good points. It shows how informed you are about structure of songs. I appreciate. However, the way you explain this is fundamentally wrong.
This is a message to audience :)
Never calculate, never estimate
Never count 1-2-3-4
Never ever count 32, this is crazy
One should dance by feelings, not with counts and calculations
Think about yourself, if people don’t see you feeling the dance whereas they keep telling: “How well a bachata star feels the music, the dance is in their blood…”
There should be something wrong. Maybe it’s this counting approach?
Thank you for your input. It's important to realise that when we say to count we dont say to count for ever. It's just during the learning process. At some point people just stop counting. But like you said, it's technically correct, so then, people should learn.
It's important not go just by feeling because if your feeling is wrong (not wrong, just not corresponding the structure of the song- feeling is not ever wrong)then you will be dancing out of rhythm (or out of the structure of the song) and the other person you are dancing with will not enjoy. This is for social dance which means that both have to be dancing together.
Furthermore,it's not counting until 32 while you are dancing. It's to count until 32 when you are doing the exercise we talked about so they learn the intrinsicacies of the music and understand what does it change during that last 8. It's not crazy, it's learning. And you cant say to students to never count 1-2-3-4 if then in a dance class we are starting each class with 5-6-7-8 let's go 1-2-3-4. We are not dancing in the video we are teaching for people to learn. And during learning moment, 100% you sould count.
Actually after someone explained song structure to me my dancing became so much better. I don't necessarily count until 32 but I realize what's coming, aware about breaks etc.
@@gennady5942 Thank you for the input. This is good and expected. When you understand the general structure of the music you will be better prepared for what is coming. As you said you don't necessarily count, that's the point! I totally agree with author in terms of this breakdown. I would like to see one example from your social dances. Do you have it somewhere online?
@@FelipeyTiagoRoleRotation People tend to repeat the exercises during parties. If you teach them counting at classes they will count at parties. I keep seeing such examples around me all the time. With "feeling" I don't mean random feelings. Feeling the rhythm means recognising 1, 2, 3 and 4 separately by their specific features. One should be able to recognise 3 and 4 without counting from 1. Also a move can be done with different counts. When you teach by counting you force them to NOT dance to the song by definition :)
@@TropicalMood
..you are such a non sense person: isn't this a video of you explaining the Bachata rhythm with tones of counting stuff...
plus making everything more complex than what it could really be?!?🤣🤣
ruclips.net/video/OsRSxjIHfJ8/видео.html