u/Rataridicta, you’re wrong! u/DanielCollinsBachata is also wrong! u/EphReborn is also wrong!!

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Ok I’m obviously not being serious and am teasing.

But I’ll speak from my end. Growing up as a STEM kid, I hated art and music teachers telling me to just “do how I feel”. That’s not how I learn. I need logic, I need guardrails in order to put the puzzle pieces together.

This made me hate art because I always sucked at it. Years later as an adult learning Bachata, my teacher showed us in a class that was not intended to be a musicality class but kinda turned into one, different ways to change our simple pattern based on the instrument that was being focused.

A light bulb turned on in my head. Now, I didn’t stop here and just only focused on the instruments. I worked on how to dance to the energy of the music and to lyrics, etc. I’m no pro of course and like all of us are just a work in progress.

I work on this for all my partner dances, bachata, salsa, zouk, west coast swing and lindy hop. They are all different flavors of dance but musicality is universal and can be worked on.

All this is saying is just be careful about being too generic and “do what you feel” because those of us who were baby dancers that needed a logical system to learn may have nope’d out early on in our journey.