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Keeping Pace and Following the Beat
Keeping Pace and Following the Beat
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Our technically advanced equipment is nice for expediting the learning process and honing your skills. However, it’s not the only tool to advance, here are some other tips.
Tricks to assist you keeping pace is to take the dances that you already know well and play the music at 200% or some pace that you can “mostly” maintain however, a speed that challenges you greatly.
This will help you find your trouble spots and then slow the video to 50-75%. Then work through it try to get back to 125-200%
When you can pull 125%, you’ll perform on the dance floor nearly flawless. There’s no such thing as perfect. Stay humble, so you don’t trip 🙂
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Setting Pace And Following The Beat
Cotton Eyed Joe – Lyrics
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men ’cause of Cotton-Eye Joe
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I’d been married long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jan M. Eriksson / Orjan Kjell Anders Oberg / Ranis Patric Edenberg
Cotton Eye Joe lyrics © Imagem London Ltd., Concord Copyrights London Limited
Tip 1. Find a tutorial that’s easy to follow along with.
Tip 2. Find a video of the dance being performed. Find one that looks fun!
Tip 3. When off the floor, listen to the music to get more familiar with the beat.
Tip 4. Learn a different format. Examples include: Line, Circle, Partner, Square,…
Tip 5. Read the lyrics. Some popular songs use the chorus multiple times. And those that mis-step often do it during the lyrics that are less known. This is especially true if you encounter a start-over during the less known lyric.
Example: Roughly 85% of Cotton Eyed Joe by RedNex is the Chorus. The chorus is used 13 times and it’s not used only twice!
Tip 6. Do something slightly different during the non-chorus lines. To help you remember where they are.
Example: the chorus is X 4. Then you have:
“He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun.”
Here you might want to throw a lasso motion.
Then the chorus is X 2.
Then you have:
“He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men ’cause of Cotton-Eye Joe.”
Here you might want to just want to raise your hands and turn your wrist in a kind of WTH motion.
Then the chorus is X 8 and the song comes to a close.
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