hi welcome to another tutorial for absolute beginners my name is Monika
Matys and I'll be breaking down for you all
the basics of club dancing and dancing in general.
Please note that all the
movements we'll do today and over the next couple of videos are not the fancy
show off moves that you'll do in front of your friends to impress them.
The movements that we're going to do today are the simplest most basic movements
that I was able to find in over a decade of teaching dance. So start with basics
learn something simple first and then I cannot wait to teach you all the fancy
show off moves as well (not this type of fancy... I'll show you a clip)
Alright, first up in our beginner Club Dance Series is rhythm.
So I always say having rhythm is half the success one learning how to dance and that's because
you can have hundreds thousands of moves but if you cannot do them to the music
you will still look not so great. So if you want to start your adventure with
dancing in the club, at weddings, at parties and just comfortably blend in
with other human beings on the dance floor please keep on watching.
People tend to dance in the club following only two basic rhythmic
patterns not 14 - 2. Every song has a tempo, this is what the song is built on and
tempo essentially means timing. We don't usually hear the tempo but we feel it.
Now I'll play two different songs and I want you to listen to them and tell me which
song do you think is faster
so let me show you where the tempo in the first song is. I'm hitting every
single beat: 1 2 3 4
right and this is the second song, the tempo is
So notice that the tempo of the song is very even, it doesn't slow down
it doesn't speed up and that's because we need something organized to follow
So sometimes we do simple movements that we don't even notice to the tempo of the song.
So it can be for example a head nod if we listen to something we nod our
head. Usually it's the song that we like that we're feeling or you can tap your
foot, tap the heel, tap the toes...Sometimes we move the torso if we're like at a bar
in the club. Also when we're driving we would hold the steering wheel and tap
the finger on the tempo of the song and I don't know I don't drive but I've seen
people do it before
It's one thing to find the tempo of the song and it's a
whole nother thing to retain it to keep it so I'm sure if you've ever tried
learning any kind of choreography whether it's in a group class or from
YouTube you heard the term eight-count before. Most mainstream music we count in
eight counts so it would look something like this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
and so on but because today I'll be teaching you simple movements we are not
learning choreography then I'm going to simplify the count and we'll only count
to two okay so it will look something like this 1 2 1 2 1 and so on how do we
manifest - show the tempo of the song when dancing? Pretty much with any single body
part so starting with the feet let's try it and do it on every single beat we're
going to go 1 2 1 2 1 2 then with the knees 1 2 1 2 1 2 then we have hips
moving up 1 2 1 2 1 2 torso we can do a little twist so 1 2 1
2 next up chest 1 2 1 2 1 2
shoulders up up 1 2 1 2
and then even hands or fingers so 1 2 1 2
We're moving the arms on
every beat then fingers we can just snap
1 2 1 2 1 2
and some people even use their head to kind of move to the tempo
of the song and it will look something like this 1 2 1 2 so you can see
you can move anything to the tempo of the music let's try with the song so
starting with the feet this is our tempo let's count 1 2 1 2 and here we go
1 2 1 2 knee bent is next 1 2 1 2 1 2
hips: 1 2 1 2
1 2 good torso: 1 2 1 2 1 2
chest:
1 2 1 2 1 2 shoulders
arms: 1 2 1 2 1 2 head nod: 2 1 2
1 2 and fingers 1 2 1
so keep in mind those were some very very basic
movements I will be breaking them down in the future video so please subscribe
so you don't miss any of them.
To practice dancing to the tempo of the
song pick one movement and try to keep it throughout the entire song so it can
be anything from the feet we just did something very simple and try to do the
entire song without speeding up or slowing down. Feet, maybe just arms if
you're a total beginner even hands - snapping okay so we'll have to start
with something simple and build up on that
At first pick a slower tempo song
so that you don't lose a lot of energy and it's easier for you to keep that
beat. If you feel like that's too much and it's hard for you to stay on beat
don't worry because we have another rhythm for you to follow
keep in mind that instead of dancing on every beat of the song you can skip one
and dance on every other beat so if we count our tempo we have one two one two
and then second beat will be right here it will sound like a little snap or clap
one two one two
so you'll notice that the second beat of the song sounds louder every single time
you hear the snare it's going to sound like a clap right or a snap and it's
also super regular it doesn't slow down it doesn't speed up we want to just keep
the same pace following it just like before when we were dancing to the tempo
of the song we can do any of those body parts to the snare
Before we were going
twice as fast one two one the foot is moving in on the
first beat and the second beat now we're skipping one one two one two see it's
much much slower and that way we have a little bit of a break in between
the movements it takes less energy to do them and it just looks more relaxed.
Next up knee bend so single knee bend every other beat one two one two one two hips one
two we're skipping one beat, hip pops up on two one one two one two moving up torso
twist to the left to the right on the second beat
shoulders: just a simple lift
one two one two one two we did also the chest so one two one two one two chest
goes out on two okay what else did I do head nod but
that's gonna feel weird but still correct, you can still do it
arm bend that's fine 1 2 1 2 1 2 n snap of course it even
matches the sound 1 2 1 2 so those are all the movements on the snare sample
movements of course there's hundreds of those out there
To practice dancing on
the snare pick just one or two and do them consistently for entire song so
again something very basic start with arms don't move anything else see if you
can stay on beat
Alright notice guys that a lot of the songs don't start with
the snare right away they have like a little bit of an intro and then the
snare comes in a little bit later on listen to the example before you hear
the snare you can just move to the tempo of the song and then listen for it
one two so there it is okay another thing you'll notice a lot of the times
during the song the snare disappears for a few seconds twenty thirty sometimes
longer what you want to do then is you still want to keep dancing and but you
want to retain that same pace so that when the snare comes back you're right
on it okay so whatever you're doing count in your head to retain that rhythm
and then the snare will be back in no time
before you even practice dancing to the snare you can practice listening for it
so go ahead put your headphones on and try to identify the loudest beat in the
song remember it sounds like a snap or a clap
Alright you guys so we covered two
basic rhythms we know how to move to the tempo of the song we know how to move to
the snare does it make us feel good on the dancefloor well not quite
what we need to do is be able to put some movements together so moving
different body parts at the same time right because this does not look very
appealing if we only move the feet or if we only move the arms this doesn't even
look like we are dancing so what is missing is coordination and we'll talk
about this next all right you guys that is it for today if you have any
questions please leave them in the comments below and I'll try to answer
them in my future videos
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You stressed me out
I'm probably moving in and out right I should have like a marker or
something no? I'll be looking nervous that's...
You can have hundreds thousands of
moves but if you cannot do them to the beat you're going to look like crap
Lester can I say crap in my tutorials? I think I just did all right let me
rephrase that a little bit