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Old 6th-April-2005, 12:17 AM   #70 (permalink)
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Re: Dancing by numbers....

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Originally Posted by MartinHarper
This always bugged me. Splitting music into chunks of eight beats seems to be a standard. Splitting music into chunks of eight Ceroc counts would be weird, but doable, but that's not something that's taught in Ceroc - instead, the count during moves goes 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10... 11... 12... 13... (etc, etc).
Ceroc patterns are not generally taught in a way which is timed to fit a musical phrase, and they are different lengths, so in freestyle you could start and finish any move on any beat of a phrase. In a way, therefore, it doesn't make much sense to teach them to a particular phrasing, but by convention (I assume) they are always taught starting on the first beat of a phrase, hence the 5,6,7,8 introduction.
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Originally Posted by MartinHarper
How about "3, 2, 1, go"?
Nigel Anderson, for example, plays around with the introduction and says things like 23..7..19..go, but he does still do it to the 5,6,7,8 of the musical phrase!
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