http://ihatetodance.com/2008/04/14/not-all-music-is-dance-music/ The guerrilla manual for survival on the dance floor - "Every Man's Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing: Ace Your Wedding Dance and Keep Cool on a Cruise, at a Formal, and in Dance Classes." Learn ballroom dance, formal dance, slow dance, survival dance, how to hear the beat in music, ballroom music phrasing like 32-beat music. Prepare for dance lessons. Intro to foxtrot, swing, salsa, rumba, tango, waltz. Free dance instruction video clips. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://ihatetodance.com/2008/04/14/not-all-music-is-dance-music/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Sets of 8: test yourself on hearing the beat of the music « Every Man’s Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:05:02 +0000 http://ihatetodance.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-81 [...] Sets of 8: test yourself on hearing the beat of the music 7 04 2008 A good test for hearing the beat by counting sets of 8 is to flip the radio dial, stop on random songs and accurately count the sets of 8 and know you’re right. It took me about a year of dedicated practice before I could do that 90% of the time, but it was closer to two years before I could do it 100% of the time and have the confidence to know I was right. Part of the test is to know if a particular song is dance music, which I’ll go into in my next post. [...] [...] Sets of 8: test yourself on hearing the beat of the music 7 04 2008 A good test for hearing the beat by counting sets of 8 is to flip the radio dial, stop on random songs and accurately count the sets of 8 and know you’re right. It took me about a year of dedicated practice before I could do that 90% of the time, but it was closer to two years before I could do it 100% of the time and have the confidence to know I was right. Part of the test is to know if a particular song is dance music, which I’ll go into in my next post. [...]

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