Let's find the beat of this song!
Many hours later...
I think we found it.
You hear that?
The what? The... The what? The...
Now let's listen to the same... In a different song.
Thanks, last one.
Okay, now we're gonna look for the snare sound.
It can also sound like...
Or like... It's kind of a sharp or staccato sound.
Now, I want you to either clap or snap when you hear the sound.
Let's try this on every even number, and five, six, seven, eight, one,
One more time...
Nice! That's our feet that's our feet.
So, now we're gonna practice the same exercise to three different songs.
Remember, focus on that sharp sound and forget everything.
Last one, this one is gonna have a little spice, so, watch out.
We just use two different elements of music, either the base or the snare to mark the rhythm.
You can use these two sounds to find the beat for a lot of different kinds of music.
So, we were just clapping.
That's the easy part. The hard part is actually dancing on beat.
One of the reasons this is difficult is because the time in between the music markers doesn't change
but when you're dancing, you're doing different types of motions that all have to fit in the same amounts of time.
Meaning, you have to use different amounts of energy in order to stay on beat.
So to practice staying on rhythm, we're going to do one last little exercise but doing a little bit of dancing. Let's go.
You're going to start with any leg. It doesn't matter. We're going to take a small step out
and take a small step together. Small step out, small step together, again, small out, together, out,
together, last time out, together, out, together, and then we're gonna do the same thing but we're gonna do a bigger step.
Ready, five, six, seven, big step out, together, out, together, again, out, together, out, together.
One more time, out, together, and good. So in order to practice staying on rhythm while
we're doing different sizes of movement, we're gonna do an eight-count so don't worry about counting.
We'll count for you, and you'll see it on the screen. We're gonna do an eight-count
of small, together, out, together, small, together, out, together, big, together, together, big, together, out, together.
We're gonna try this to the three songs we heard at the beginning of this video just follow along.
Small, and big, let's go!
Good job.
Last song, we're gonna start on the - one.
Very good.
So, we talked about using the base and the snare as music markers in order to stay on beat
and we did a short little exercise, but you definitely need to practice a lot more in order to master the skill.
But the good thing is that STEEZY Studio's intro to dance program takes you through
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Jessie, Clay, out!
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