2 from here
and 3 and "A" 4
is this piece slow or fast (samba timing)
fast !
Salvatore Sinardi and Victoria Kharchenko - Samba bounce Latin lesson
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Have you ever seen anyone on the street walking like this ?
Not so much! So samba is different for the fact that
it is different from what we normally do. (meaning natural everyday movements)
Why are certain things different in the samba?
Thats because we have a lot of different timing,
different speed & different directions
We have samba dance figures with bounce & without bounce
We have latin samba figures with one timing or also a constant changing timing
Yes? Like promenade runs for an example
in that samba school figure almost every step is exactly the same
Now, William? Is William in the house ?
Hahahaha now William
I want to see if he remembers
How many beats do we have in the samba timing?
2 very good! So we have the 1 and the 2
So 2 or 3. that means the orchestra will play only 2 beats - one & two
1- 2 - 1 - 2 but what we are counting
5 A 6 A 7 AND A 8 is the phrase
the beat underneath is only 2
then we have what everybody knows "and" & "a"
the AND is valued at half a musical beat
the "A" is valued at a quarter musical beat. Right? Everybody knows that !
I need to know this because otherwise I will not know how much faster I need to be
to dance this particular samba school figure
Imagine every single samba school....Im Italian yes? Im Italian, Yes ? hahahaha
Imagine we have two pizza's
we divide the pizzas into four parts
every beat is a pizza with four pieces
how do we count samba beats 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 -2 - 3 - 4
if i divide this beat
1 and a 2
what does this mean foe the samba beat?
it means that AND is
valued goes over and says can i have 1/2 of your pizza?
So this pizza is halved and I will say that its 1
this half is called AND
this pizza i won't get the piece. its seperate
so we can also say this samba counts are (quick , quick , slow)