FTB 4.3 Salsa Basics Practice On1 to Slow Salsa Music (come play a game!)

In this lesson you'll practice doing all your salsa basics to the beat AND we'll add in a new step step step touch "bachata style" step for fun. This is Week 4, Lesson 3 of "Finding the Beat". Full course playlist below!
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Who was able to stay on beat for this one? Remember if you're new you can check out all orevious lessons here: ua-cam.com/play/PLzGRdLHrtfBwCPD27hvxH8uvx0pA3ovxM.html

[@musicalflow_skillslab]

I like the idea of "fill in the beats"! Now, as already said, Salsa is not only about 123-567-, so at this point, I'm missing more examples of stepping on all the beats or other combinations or movements (remember the "dancing like idiot" video? We shouldn't forget what dancing is about when we dance to Salsa music) - at least you show the step-touch with steps on the downbeats and taps on the upbeats, but there is much more of course, like doing the break to the same direction in consequent bars for example. You also do always start with the left foot on the one, which is of course only half of the truth, as the right foot is just as good ;-) It's understandable if you want to focus on "breaking on 1", but it wouldn't hurt to give a hint that we can do the break on any of the beats and get other rhythmic patterns apart from 123-, like -234, 1-34 or 12-4 using the same movement dynamics. Why do I say all that? Because it seems to me that we are leaving at this point the introduction into dancing to Salsa music and instead of that, we are entering the introduction to dancing a specific step pattern. Which, for fact, is neither the beginning, nor the end of Salsa dancing.

[@jorgealira95]

Man, I’ve been watching this whole series as add-on to my in person classes and I have made significant progress, I will definitely buy the course as soon as I’m done with this playlist
Thanks!

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@@jorgealira95 so happy it's helped Jorge! Thanks for the comment man. Love hearing progress stories, keep it up! 🙌 -Robin

[@khalanilanda2185]

You Rock!!

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Thank you!!! 🙏🤘 -Robin