How to Find the 1 in Music (can you do it with these 4 songs?)

love the way you put it with the snares 2,4,6,8 awesome way to put it job well done.

Thank you! Best video ever!

This is so good. The playlist for timing is amazing! Such a resource. Thanks!

How to differentiate between the 1 and 5? For me 1 and 5 are identical. The loop ends at 4!

I would have liked this much more if he would have counted the one just to see if I were doing it right

Has the beat of a Merengue... March it is my a typical Salsa beat.

I am talking about the first song.

hey thanks for the vides, but I am not able to find this video in the playlist linked in the description. is this different from the playlist?

Awesome and instructive video. Thanks! Salsa beginner

If you are a drummer count this as 8th notes... 1-&-2-&-3-&-4-&. In his example, the '5' would actually be the next bar of 8th notes and the next '1'.

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Amazing amazing amazing. I’ve been struggling so much with learning timing to dance. Video read breaks it down so well and clear. Amazing content. Thank you!

This is so helpful!!! I'm a dancer but I really don't know much about the concept of 8 counts until I had to try choreography. I usually don't count but sense it from the repetition of beats/instruments about where the 1 count starts.
Thank you!!

Hi, thx for the lesson. WhAT is the difference between 1 and 5 in the first (and in general) track?

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I m not sure how people find this tutorial helping. I m not a professional, but I think what professionals do not understand is that there are relativeness in choices. What is your choice of a beat qualified being one? Then the instructors should say for example, that the highest beat or else is my critique to choose one bit as one. Or says that all musicians choose the highest beat. But, you can choose any other quality of a beat by your choice as your one. Second, there is a melody on the background that has no one. Or normally we do not seek a quality within it to select one. That means we need another instrument fit a quality that we choose as one. But many instructors tend to fit a one in that melody even. How is that possible?

Excellent ! Thank you for one a the best videos on how to find the one in a beat.

I’ve searched and searched for a tutorial that I could understand and connect with especially on songs that don’t start on the 1. Yours is the first to actually help me. It was technical and practical. I immediately went to try your technique on other songs and got it!!! Thank you sooo much!

Very useful. New to dance and glad i found this video. Thanks.

This was a great lesson

great great

Super helpful walk through. Thank you!

Can you explain to me why Dancers count to 8 - so 2 bars - while musicians count one bar - so stop reaching the 4?

I thought this was terrific. Great teaching approach. Thought I was flying it until the snare drum was mentioned!!! Can you explain what this is exactly???? As u can tell I know absolutely nothing about music. I take your point - need to play n listen to more music Started dance lessons.

awesome. Good examples for beginner as like me. but these songs are a little bit slow for salsa dance 😅

This was great! Very clear and easy to learn!

I'm a line dancer and in the beginning I wondered why the instructor would count us in as "5, 6, 7, 8" rather than "1, 2, 3, 4". Eventually I figured it out! Most line dances are structured in patterns of 8, such as a 32-count dance. However, some are not, such as the Electric Slide which is 18 counts. Hence, after all these years, people STILL mess it up at weddings lol!

Is there an app that displays the beats like this video?

This is absolutely amazing and soooooo helpful. So many tutorials and lecture just say listening to this and that but never gives examples and analyse them like you do. Just brilliant! Hope you’d do more of these 😊 thank you!!!

Do all beats normally have an 8 count?

Wowowowoow. Bro! Thanks for showing me how to count. You're the man.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 🥹😭 so helpful! I needed this so much

thank you for the video! but how do you know when to cue dancers it (eg. start 5-6-7-8) and not mistaken it for the "1"

Incredibly helpful video for a non-musician. Thank you!!

I’m using this video to try and understand beat so I can sync videos and photos to sound! It’s really helpful thank you.

Thank you for the video. Do have any video where you do this exactly for bachata?

Very helpful thanks!

This has opened my Eye to how to Listen to the Music. Or should I say opened my Ears to how to See music. 🤗. Absolutely Awesome, love it 👏

ty!

I counted 4s instead of 8s. I can't really hear a difference between the 1 and 5

A useful video BUT wish you had done it with Salsa songs where the beat is hard to hear, there were all simple

Your amazing dude

This video was sooooooo helpful!! Thank you!