Bachata Musicality For Dancers

So the first thing we just need to go over is a little bit of music theory. But music theory that is relevant to dancing and dancers.

So now the first thing that I like to do is actually draw a distinction about something that we call musical interpretation, and musicality, because although they are very closely linked in my head, they're not exactly the same thing.

With musical interpretation, that is purely about your understanding of the music and your interpretation, based on what you know what you like, how you know how to move.

Now in terms of musicality is coming from a slightly different place. So yes, you're interpreting the music, but it's coming from a place of understanding.

The way I like to explain it is like if you're watching, a Spanish Telenovela on the TV, you might be able to understand what's going on if you see a woman shouting to a man and you can see she's obviously really angry at him for something, and you know, that there's something going on there but you don't know why. Whereas if you speak Spanish, and then you can explain to someone why she's angry at him.

So is a different level of understanding. It's about being able to get the general gist of what's going on, which is musical interpretation, and being able to actually explain what's going on through your body movement in a way that someone else can can understand it. And that's the difference between musical interpretation and musicality.

Now, I have to say that not everyone will agree with that, and that's fine. If you have your own definition of interpretation, that's fine. But this is just explaining how I understand this topic. So hopefully things will make sense as we move on.

The first thing that we need to understand is that musicality is it's not some mysterious concepts. A lot of people get put off by the concept of musicality because they think is too difficult to learn. And there's just too many things too much to going on and that they'll never grasp it.

But musicality is actually quite simple to understand. But the problem is it takes a lot of practice to master. So all the stuff that I'm going to tell you it will be explaining what musicality is, but that doesn't mean that at the end of these blog you will have musicality.

You're going to have to take these concepts and apply them to the way that you listen to music, because musicality is primarily a skill about how you listen to the music.

So we will start break it down concepts that make it easier for you to understand those concepts and then apply them in your own time, because the people that have musicality tend to be people who are always listening to music, even when they're standing there making a cup of coffee in the morning, if they've got the music on in the background, and they're actively listening to that song. In their head. They're breaking down the basics, the vocals, the melody, without even thinking about it, and they're making little movements with their bodies, they're making little sounds with their mouths, and all this is going on without them even having to think about it. Because their brain is actually now working in a different sort of way, when it listens to music.

Whereas a lot of people the listen to music, but it's more in a passive way. If someone has music on in the background, it's background noise to whatever they're doing.

So there's the two different ways of listening to music, active and passive. And the propose of this blog is to help you to learn how to listen music in a more active way.

Timing is simply the the ability to coordinate your movements, in this case as a dancer, is to coordinate your movements with specific beats within the music or specific accents within the within the music. So if I were to play a song, and I asked you to clap on the first beat hopefully you'll be able to do that.