Leading isn't about being controlling, it is about giving her time and space to dance and letting her body feel the music. Girls want to dance, they don't want to just be put through an obstacle course of patterns. Any tips, tricks, experiences on how to dance salsa musically will be very much appreciatedĪnd remember, don't just go out there and try to put every girl through your patterns. This became a longer post than I intended. (All is relative, of course, my most intricate stuff is probably pretty basic for most people here ) That doesn't seem to be enough to really give me the idea that I'm playing with the music, though. Of course I try to match the pace of the music a bit and save the faster, more intricate patterns for when the music picks up. And because in general people seem to expect more variations and patterns, I'm having a harder time actually being musical. In salsa, however, being a bit further apart, I'm finding it more difficult to really feel the connection with the partner. It seems all about connecting and feeling the music. And in those styles, to me it seems that it's very much okay to dance through a song with just basic steps and a few very simple variations. Because the music is generally slower and you're leading in part from the hips and leg, I find it much easier to actually connect with my partner and get the idea that we're really dancing together. Having made that realisation as a musician, I really don't want to go down the same road while dancing.īack to kizomba and bachata. I spent ten years as a heavy metal guitarist, just running up and down scales, learning technique and going full-on as much as I could, before I stopped to think about actually playing musically. And in both I got compliments on my musicality from some pretty advanced ladies That really struck a chord, because I think musicality is very important while dancing. Yesterday evening at one of the local socials, apart from salsa, I danced some bachata and kizomba. But since gathering knowledge is better than simply sitting back and waiting, I'm going to give it a go anyway So what this study is saying is that your parents are right, music just isn’t what it used to be.As I'm only a beginner, a very reasonable answer to my question would be 'You'll get there in time'. ( This two-minute YouTube video does a great job of demonstrating how excessive loudness saps richness and depth from a recording.) Indeed, Serrà and his colleagues found that the loudness of recorded music is increasing by about one decibel every eight years. Loudness comes at the expense of dynamic range-in very broad terms, when the whole song is loud, nothing within it stands out as being exclamatory or punchy. This is a problem, Scientific American says, because: Music has gotten a lot louder in the past half-century. “Musicians today seem to be less adventurous in moving from one chord or note to another, instead following the paths well-trod by their predecessors and contemporaries,” Scientific American explains.Īnd the next time an old person complains that your music is too loud, well, it probably is. The study also found that pitch content has decreased – which means that the number of chords and different melodies has gone down. In other words, all pop music sounds the same now. That means that songs are becoming more and more homogeneous. So, what happened since 1955? Well, timbral variety went down. Joan Serrà, a postdoctoral scholar at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona, and his colleagues examined three aspects of those songs: timbre (which “accounts for the sound color, texture, or tone quality,” according to Serrà and his colleagues) pitch (which “roughly corresponds to the harmonic content of the piece, including its chords, melody, and tonal arrangements”) and loudness (more on that below). Scientific American reports on a study that tried to track changes in pop music over the last half-century. But what if the issue isn’t inherent bias and nostalgia? What if today’s music really is that bad? To find out, we’ll need some science. And if there’s something everyone but teenagers can agree on, it’s that today’s pop music is terrible. If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that everyone else’s music is bad.
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