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Bachata Musicality

Musicality means knowledge of, sensitivity to, or talent for the music. Some dancers are exceptionally talent for, Dominicans are mostly sensitivity to, and the rest of the dancers can search more knowledge of the bachata musicality. Musicians go to school to learn to play the instruments and to understand thoroughly the musical structures. Dominican dancers don't need education, because they already have the sensitivity to bachata music. The rest of the dancers should attend musicality workshops and listen to bachata every day.

The video above is the first ever published educational video of the bachata musicality. Bachata Ambassador did it 2011 together with Carlos Suarez band. It's really good and complete package. The video covers musician view to the musicality, but it certainly helps also the dancers. Most of the international instructors have copied this video or created similar type of videos. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO WATCH IT SEVERAL TIMES !!! Y AQUI PUEDES VER EL MISMO SUBTITULADO EN ESPAÑOL.

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Learn to play Bongo and Guira

We take it seriously. We have all the angles of Musicality. It's not enough to say "listen to the bongo and guira derecho and majao". Most of the people have problems in hearing Guira or understanding which sound means derecho, majao or mambo. That's why we teach you to play bongo and guira. That forces you to understand the music structure, music sections and to understand which bongo&guira sound belongs to derecho and majao.You won't beat the professional bongo&guira musicians with the 1 hour education, but it's amazing how quickly everyone learns the basics, thank's to our excellent instructor, professional percussionist Wilson Tambora. The goal is to teach you to play the basics on top of the background music. The advanced workshop will teach the transitions and decorations..

 

 

 

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Musicality for Dancers

Musicality means dancing to the rhythm, melody, and mood of the music. It's the key issue in any dance and especially in the Authentic Dominican style Bachata. Musicality for the dancers can be divided into stepping, following the sections and obeying the cultural aspects.

Stepping level means in it's basic form following the 1-2-3-TAP rhythm (=bachata musical compass). Stepping is actually more complicated because Dominicans follow On1, On2, On3, On4 timing and they step with simple tap, double, triple, syncopated, three step, delayed or decorated. Independent of what they do with their legs, the real compass level rhythm lives in the upper body.

Bachata songs are divided into musical parts/ sections called introduction, derecho, majao and mambo. You need this information in order to follow the energy level changes.

The cultural level includes how to behave, with whom to dance, how to start, energy levels and the cultural espectations related to places/clubs.

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Dominican Musicality

It's funny that some international instructors have written "you cannot be a bachata dancer if you even don't know the names of the instruments". Millions of Dominicans don't know the names of the instruments and musicality concepts like derecho and majao are totally unknown for them. However they dance much better than the rest of the world and most importantly they dance to the music.

Dominicans carry "bachata in their blood", which means they have listened and danced bachata whole life. No-one of them has taken bachata classes. Listening and dancing has given them the sensitivity to understand the energy changes in the music. They know (or better to say they feel) what happens in the song. Unfortunately they are not bachata instructors being able to break down and explain all these invisible details.

Bachata Ambassador and Yocasti Autentica from Santo Domingo) know how Dominicans hear the music and how they dance to the music. Their new workshop is called DOMINICAN MUSICALITY. It's ground-braking new way to learn to dance like a Dominican. Hot hot !! Recommended !!

Luis Vargas DR7: the master of the guitarra, requinto and melody

Unfortunately we cannot break-down and publish the Dominican Musicaly diamond yet. We want you to hear it in DR11 Bachata Festival in DomRep. It's related to feelings, melody, requinto, energy levels and many many things more.

Luis Melody makes goosebumps, hear beat and feel good

Dominican Musicality does not conflict with the professional musician view and learning to play bongo and guira. The more you know, the better. However you have to be carefull on what to focus. E.g. in case you just hunt for the almost not audible guira and hard to follow sections, you'll certainly loose the focus on enjoying the dance.