So as I was getting good and going to advanced classes and doing advanced patterns and all that.
One of the biggest criticisms that I still got from my teachers was my musicality.
One of them kept saying, just put on an earphone and really listen and feel the music.
And my reaction to that was I thought I was feeling the music and she said,
no, no, no, no, you have to keep listening.
And to me that sounds like when you teach someone rock climbing and then you just tell them to just climb up,
not down, you know,
it's true, but it's not very helpful.
So I needed to know what to look for,
what to feel. And so luckily I took musicality courses specifically from Luis and Andrea Pablo and Raquel
Demetrio Rosario and also shout out to Illary because last week we had a discussion about this and she taught me a lot about musicality.
So the biggest thing that I learned was something that I've never heard anywhere before.
And even in their experience,
even in europe, uh the same in Australia,
no one teaches uh this kind of stuff.
No one teaches this material and it's basically learning how to feel the energy based on the instruments.
So the three energies that I was referring to are called the Dercho, Majao and Mambo,
the derecho is soft,
the guira is going one and two and three and four and five and so on.
So in this section you would do something more softer and then you have the majao,
how the guira goes 12345678.
And it's strong and this is more energy.
Like in the music, you can usually tell when the,
when it's the majao, how you just suddenly feel more energetic and then you have even higher than that,
which is the mambo.
And the mambo is usually the requinto
The there's a guitar that like that does like some sort of a solo.
You can clearly tell it's um it's it's it's the most energetic part of the song.
So let's have a look at all these three being taught from the Dominican republic
now.
Yeah
so typically they always start with the derecho
energy kind of low and then now they're going up higher
energy higher than the previous one.
This is majao 1234567.
And then the next bar they're going to change to the mambo.
There's no requinto. But this is how you can tell the energy is even higher up the.
Oh right so you get the idea now let's look at it when Luis and Andrea are dancing.
Let's go from the last video.
All their movements are pretty easy.
And that's the thing.
Usually in the beginning it's easier movements
and they're not really doing bigger movements or anything like that.
Even when he's doing that,
usually he does it with a lot more energy.
But this is very soft.
Now change.
Now we are in the Majao.
If you can see if you can notice he has a lot more energy and look let's push here using a lot more energy,
his facial expressions even more dramatic,
his movements are bigger.
That's that's how you can tell.
And you can see if you can hear he just kind of took a breath and and it's going back to the derecho again.
So now it's soft you see if you can hear the guitar is going crazy but he's doing something really slow because he's choosing to listen to the derecho.
Listen,
listen
strong again.
His movements are there,
He did this twice already,
and this time he's using a lot more energy
throw of the hands.
Very energetic
movements are bigger.
This is the last part of the majao.
Now it's not the derecho, it's the mambo.
This is the requinto. the guitar is very strong.
You can clearly hear the guitar is dominating
back to majao
look at the energy is still strong
ending.
So there's a part in the middle where the guitar is kind of going crazy.
Not the mambo yet, but you can definitely accent the guitar,
but it's the derecho is soft and Luis chooses to lead movements that are more slow and rounded.
And that's just an example of choosing how to express your musicality.
So maybe if the voice is slow even though it's in the majao you can listen,
choose to listen to the voice and you can play with the musicality any different way.
This is how every dance is different now.
Something that I think is very,
very important to say is when I say more energetic,
I'm afraid that leaders will take this to be more forceful,
like more more pushing more and more,
you know, more rough. I don't think,
you know, I don't think it's that when I see more energetic is like your own movement gets bigger and your your body your facial expressions
is expressing in a more high energy.
But your lead is only very slightly more uh more um more strong but very very very slightly.
Like it almost doesn't make that much of a difference in terms of leads.
It's just it's more sharp, It's more fast,
but it's not at all more forceful.
So if I'm like,
it's always gentle, it's always smooth.
Never, never, ever back back back like that.
Okay, so thank you so much for watching.
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