The *KEY* to WCS Musicality

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0:00 The 3 Musicality Struggles
1:00 The Skill You Must Master
4:20 Musicality Mastery

[phubinhnguyen]

For me, as a solo & couple dancer for quite a while (not WCS yet), I realized that for musicality, there are 3 key factors so we can be better at musicality:
* First is we have to understand how to count, the strong beat is in 1 and 5 that's what everybody knows, but also people should know after every 4 x 8 counts, the music change, so there you can do some dip, pose or something to emphasize the dance.
* Second is the energy of the song, normally, a song will go like intro => verse 1 => chorus 1 => verse 2 => chorus 2 => bridge => chorus 3 & outro. Each part has different energy, so if you put different energy into your step, you will match the music.
* The last is matching the body moment/step to the type of sound or lyrics. There dot sound, long dash sound, vibrate sound, pose sound, each type of sound is matched with step, swipe/slide, shake or pose/dip and the lyrics will go with how you demonstrate it.
Combine all these 3 and we have good musicality and the most enjoyable dance.

[stevehoge]

As a dancer and a musician I'm puzzled why West Coast Swing instruction seems to depart from conventional music rhythmic conventions and terminology. For example, the concept of an "straight 8 count with an emphasis on 1 and 5" is normally understood intuitively (and notated on the page) by musicians as two measures (or "bars") of 4:4 time with emphasis on the 1, ie. "the downbeat". AFAIK, West Coast Swing is invariably danced to popular music played in 4:4 time (as distinct from, for example, waltzing in 3:4 time) but in WCS there seems to be an alternate way of expressing musical timing that doesn't refer to time signatures, measures, 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, downbeats and upbeats - I've even heard instructors refer to 8 measures (a common length of the verse or chorus in a song) as a "phrase". With this unique set of musical paradigms - and the puzzling collection of 6-beat patterns which don't fit into whole musical measures - I'm not surprised that some of your students who are musicians just couldn't map their intuitive sense of rhythm onto West Coast Swing movements.

[mercury]

As long as you lead clearly, and the follower can feel a difference between "walk-walk" and "tri-ple -step" does it matter how you count? What I mean is: can you improvise any random pattern, like "walk-walk, walk-walk, tri-ple-step, walk-walk, tri-ple-step, tri-ple-step, tri-ple-step, tri-ple-step, walk-walk, walk-walk, walk-walk, walk-walk"?

[maxpower]

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