Rumba:

When you hear the rhythm of Rumba dance ××× ×× ×× ××, in fact, this rhythm has already told you the speed of the music, and this speed is It is the key to your dancing. It has nothing to do with the rhythm of rumba dance ××× ×× ×× ×× itself. The important purpose of this rhythm is to tell you the speed of the music and the position of the first beat, because Your dance steps do not step on a certain X of the rhythm of ××× ×× ×× ××, but must step on the beat point. That is what you usually call NOE, TWO, THREE, and FOUR.

For example, the rhythm of rumba is 4/4 time ××× ×× ×× ××. The first beat has three tones, and the next three beats have two tones. The basic beat points of rumba are ONE, TWO, THREE, and FOUR. You just follow the characteristics of rumba dance steps and follow the beat points of ONE, TWO, THREE, and FOUR. The beat points are at the strong position of each beat. The note of each beat may be one note, two notes, triplet, quadruplet, etc. You will never take three or two steps in a single beat of a triplet. You can take at most one or two steps. Don't take a step. If you must take a step for each note on a triplet like ×××, it will not only be impossible, but also very funny. You can try it yourself when no one else is around.

There is a question. When dancing, does the music need to be easy to dance with, or does the dance need to be accommodating to the music? The answer is that dance accommodates music. This is very important for dancers. You must have seen dancers searching for and adapting to the point of music over and over again during dance practice. When have you ever seen music looking for the point of dancing over and over again? During the performance, the dancers will say, please play the music. After the music starts, the dancers will blend into the music after finding the rhythm and speed. What would happen if a dancer said, "Look at the speed and rhythm of my dance, play music, and then go on stage to dance rumba or cha cha cha." The result can only be that music and dance are separated into "two skins". Just like the relationship between singing and accompaniment, after the singer chooses the key signature, the music starts to play. The singer must adapt to the changes in the pitch, rhythm, and speed of the music. If the singer is out of tune with the music, we say the singer is "out of tune." . To borrow a term from music and apply it to dance, if you can't jump into the music, you're "running around".

Keep going deeper. In a dance, whether it is ballet, Latin dance, tap dance, jazz dance or other artistic dance, when you make a big spin or jump, what is the most important thing about music to you? Is it how many notes there are in each beat? Obviously not. At this time, you can only remember in your mind how many beats or measures your movements need to take. When you complete it, the music must be played exactly where you need it. That is, the music moves a few beats. You must also remember that music is always flowing. Music will not adapt to your dance, but your dance must adapt to the music. It’s as simple as a singer taking the initiative to blend into the accompaniment, and the music just needs to be played according to his own requirements.

We can use improvisational dance to explain this problem. Let’s talk about music first. Music cannot be stopped once it starts, music is flowing, and the tempo in a section is generally constant. Like articles or speech, music is composed of phrases and segments. There are obvious pauses between phrases and segments. In music, it is called breathing or breath, which is a means of processing emotions. There are also rest notes. When rest notes are used in large numbers and in succession, the music, audibly, stops completely. But here the pause or the cessation of the music does not mean the cessation of the flow of the music. An example can be given to illustrate that water keeps flowing. Once there is an obstacle, the water stops flowing. But in fact, the flow does not stop. The water is just accumulating energy. Once it breaks through, the water will flow faster than before. In fact, dance is also fluid and will not stop until it is over. In dance, when an actor needs a big move, he will stop and then move again. The stop here is a savings, like a pause in music.

When dancing, the drum rhythm is used to identify the characteristics of dance music and the position of the first beat. It has no practical meaning in the middle of dancing. The actual meaning at this time is to follow the speed told by the music rhythm. , forming a beat point in the heart: 1, 2, 3, 4; 2, 2, 3, 4 or 1, 2, 3; 2, 2, 3.

You have to dance at this speed, fast or slow will prevent you from entering the music correctly.

When I was learning rumba, I saw many people chanting the rumba dance rhythm "dong·ta lata dong da dong dong dong·" in their mouths while practicing. When I asked the students to dictate the rhythm of the rumba dance, they also said, "Dong, da la da dong, dong dong dong..." I asked my students how many beats the rumba dance was in, and they dragged out a long childish voice. Say: Four - shoot -! So, how many beats did you count? Four—beats—! In fact, they counted five beats, which can be easily seen from the unit short line below the rhythm, which is five beats. Dancers of Latin dance should feel very familiar when they read the previous rhythm formula, because they often chant it, especially when there is no music practice. I wonder if they have ever thought about it. When he only chants it once alone, he chants it once. The reason why this happens is that the three steps of the four beats of Rumba and the emphasis of the first beat are moved forward. In the dance, the fourth beat is connected with the first beat of the next section. together. I have clearly marked the rhythm with the musical "minus time line" earlier. There are obviously five units, and each unit is a beat. The rhythm of rumba is 4/4 why there are five beats

Who is wrong? No one is wrong. What is wrong is the concept. Because the rumba rhythm here is the dance rumba rhythm, and the 4/4 time is the rumba rhythm of music. If you don't use music accompaniment when practicing, and just chant the rumba rhythm in your mouth and move around, it should look like this: " | O lata dongta dong dong | dong·da ". Why is this happening?

Rumba music always starts with "dong·ta lata dongta dong dong" and starts over and over again. Because dance is "four beats and three steps", when you enter the music, the "dong·dah" on the first beat is the preparation beat, and you move on the second beat "la da", and on the fourth beat "dong dong" It needs to be extended to the "dong·ta" of the first beat. At this time, the music has already begun to enter the next section, and the dance has just completed one section. Dance and music are always so "mismatched". The strong-weak relationship of 4/4 time music itself is a cycle of "strong, weak, sub-strong, if". The strong-weak relationship of rumba dance music has become a "○ weak, sub-strong, strong, weak" relationship due to extension. . It's like the relationship between a train and railroad tracks. The segmented rails are the bars of the music, the train cars are the bars of the dance, both serve one thing but do not proceed in sync. On the rumba, this lack of synchrony emphasizes the dance character of the rumba.

Music rhythm: ××× ×× ×× ×× | ××× ×× ×× ××

Dance rhythm: ○ ×× ×× ×× | Extend ×× ×× ×× | Extend