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From the Coach’s corner:

"The one thing I tell people is when you’re dancing just try to listen to the music and picture yourself, or assume that you’re part of that band, that you’re one of the instruments in that band, and you want to make your body do what that instrument is doing. And above all, enjoy yourself!"


From the days when they did not have music 24/7:

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.You will find

it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Making resolutions?: Involve friends and family. They can support your efforts, and can motivate you to keep going. Setting a personal goal is not a "promise" which can never be broken. Don’t paint yourself into a corner by overstating what can be a realistic change you plan to make.

Clave from Africa? There are several methods and some that are wrong. There may be a clarification some day but most of it in looking at it from the present and it is not from Africa. It was from the original Indian music before the Spanish got to the Americas. Only it was in a five beat measure. (yes they had six and even seven beat measures.) The first measure was 1,3,5 and in the second measure it was 2 & 4. So you have 3 in the first measure and 2 in the second, every other beat, these Indians were simple.

But what happens when you try to apply it to a four beat measure? Ah Hah!