How to understand the beat of dance music?

Beat refers to the combination law of strong beat and weak beat. There are many strong and weak sounds, which appear repeatedly in a certain order in the same length of time, forming a regular change of strength.

The dancer must first determine what kind of dance music it is. In other words, there is something to jump. This is only a matter of conditioned reflex for a master dancer, but it may not be so simple for a beginner in ballroom dancing. They often don't know whether to dance three or four steps, and they can't respond to music like rumba and tango that ordinary people don't dance very much. The rhythm of dance music is hard to know, so first of all, we should improve our musical literacy, listen more and understand more.

Because the footwork of ballroom dancing is strictly linked to the rhythm of dance music, you must know the rhythm of dance music if you want to "step out of your feet bravely". Compared with ordinary song music, ballroom dancing music has obvious beat drums after professional production, and the drums on the remake are loud, which is obviously different from those on the weak beat.

If you listen carefully to the intensity of the drums, you can easily tell whether it is three beats or four beats. Of course, the former must dance the three-step waltz (slow three step, form 3) or the Viennese waltz (fast three steps), while the latter obviously has to choose among the four-step dances. Generally, dance halls often play a slow four-fast four-step dance, a jitterbug dance, a rumba dance and a tango dance. You can play less from yourself.

Listening more will produce a sense of music, not only the beat of dance music, but also the beat of all songs. You can learn a musical instrument if you have the conditions, which will also be of great help to your sense of rhythm!

Dance music before 1970 refers to swingmusic, Rock, Soul, R& etc. B. But the dance music at this time only refers to social dance music, which was not a musical style at that time. Disco was popularized in 1970, and by the end of 1970, a new music form came out.

Now the application of electronic elements is actually electronic dance music, but it is different from distorted electronic dance music. What I'm talking about here is purely "electronic music that makes people dance", but there was no such word as electronic dance music at that time.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-dance music