The four-step dance is what we often call the blues. This dance is a kind of laid-back dance, which is originally an old-fashioned social dance in Britain, and is now very popular in many parts of China, especially in Taiwan.
The music of the dance is 4/4 beat, the speed of 26 bars per minute, the pace of the main step and step with the two basic movements, slow, smooth, easy to walk, is now known as the social dance in the "slow four steps". It is the smartest choice to start with the blues dance for those who are learning to dance for the first time.
Nowadays, many professional modern dance teachers often use the blues step to take students to practice the basic techniques, such as the center of gravity to move, lift and swing, and other modern dance (except tango) of the five skills, can be quickly mastered in the leisurely dance, so almost all the higher level of teachers use this step to take the students to practice dance, and the more fruitful is quite good.
There are two basic ways to dance the slow four: one is the equal-interval dance, jumping one step for each beat; the footsteps are one left and one right, similar to walking with a human being;
The other is the two slow and two fast, with the slow step accounting for two beats and the fast step accounting for one beat. The first beat is the accent, the third is the secondary accent, while the second and fourth beats are light. At the beginning of a dance step, you must step on the accented notes of the first and third beats. The basic step is a "sliding" step consisting of a regular step, a horizontal step and a parallel step
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Blues music is a 4-beat, 4-step, 4-step, 4-step step. >The music of the blues is in 4/4 time, at a rate of 30 bars per minute, and the rhythm of the slow four is four beats to a bar, and the rhythm of the slow four is expressed in two forms, the blues musical form: "dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun," versus the ordinary 4/4 rhythm of "dun-chick, dun-chick, dun-chick, dun-chick, dun-chick ".
Blues dance that is slow four-step dance, its dance music comes from the American jungle black people have a sense of melancholy music Blues, blues is the translation of the English Blues, popular in Europe in the early twentieth century, after the introduction of the United Kingdom, was changed into a slow and steady ballroom dance. Blues dance steps are very concise, but the steps are solemn, retaining the court color and classical charm.
It has little change in rhythm and movement, and it is smooth and easy to dance, giving people a sense of comfort, leisure, peace and freedom. Its dance steps are easy to grasp, with a gentlemanly, elegant temperament, and therefore has a "standard bridge" nickname, and is known as the dance of initiation.
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