Comments on: Chapter 3 – Downbeat and Upbeat http://ihatetodance.com 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 By: James Joseph http://ihatetodance.com/downbeat-and-upbeat/comment-page-1/#comment-314 James Joseph Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:33:59 +0000 http://ihatetodance.com.dh-temp.com/?page_id=180#comment-314 Thanks for the kind words. It’s common for music and dance teachers to connect to the music innately, which I believe can make it difficult for them to relate to people, like me, who struggle with it. Teachers often articulate this stuff using music theory and talk about things like time signatures and quarter notes. That can confuse the average, non-musical person, like me, who just wants to learn social dance. Also complicating things is that music and dance theory sometimes differ, for example, the “& count” comes after the beat in music (1&), but it comes before the beat in dance (&1). Another difference is the terminology, for example, what dancers call the upbeat (counts 2, 4, 6 and 8), musicians often call the “backbeat.” Thanks for the kind words. It’s common for music and dance teachers to connect to the music innately, which I believe can make it difficult for them to relate to people, like me, who struggle with it. Teachers often articulate this stuff using music theory and talk about things like time signatures and quarter notes. That can confuse the average, non-musical person, like me, who just wants to learn social dance. Also complicating things is that music and dance theory sometimes differ, for example, the “& count” comes after the beat in music (1&), but it comes before the beat in dance (&1). Another difference is the terminology, for example, what dancers call the upbeat (counts 2, 4, 6 and 8), musicians often call the “backbeat.”

]]> By: JumpinGenie http://ihatetodance.com/downbeat-and-upbeat/comment-page-1/#comment-312 JumpinGenie Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:41:06 +0000 http://ihatetodance.com.dh-temp.com/?page_id=180#comment-312 Hi, This is an incredibly useful and well put together explanation of understanding beats in music. I have natural rhythm and do all what you say innately. However, I'm just about to do an ETM course and need to actually understand the theory behind it. Great work - your an excellent teacher! Thanks Hi,

This is an incredibly useful and well put together explanation of understanding beats in music. I have natural rhythm and do all what you say innately. However, I’m just about to do an ETM course and need to actually understand the theory behind it.

Great work – your an excellent teacher!
Thanks

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