KEY TO SYSTEM OF COUNTING, FUNDAMENTAL

DANCE POSITIONS

Objectives

➔ Define the Fundamental Skills in Dancing

➔ Learn the key to system of counting in dance

➔ Understand the Fundamental Dance Position

Fundamental Dance Skills

● Fundamental movement skills are the foundations to a healthy, active lifestyle.

● Jumping, skipping, rolling, balancing, throwing can be integrated purposefully into

dance.

Key System of Counting

● Counting rhythm patterns is an invaluable tool to many musician. Being able to

count will help you advance a lot faster as a player.

● Rhythms in music are made up of short phrases that combine to make longer

phases, much like a spoken language. Many of these phases are made up of

common two-beats patterns. Once you become familiar with these short patterns,

it will be much easier to identify and follow the rhythms of longer phases.

● Rhythm is one of the main components of music, along with melody and

harmony. Learning how to count rhythms is important if you want to improve your
 understanding of rhythm. Maybe you want to be able to count rhythms as you

read sheet music, or you want to be able to count rhythms that you hear in order

to learn from musicians you admire. First, you have to understand the

components of rhythm.

TIME SIGNATURE

➢ A musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note

that takes a beat.

➢ Time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other:

➢ The upper numeral indicates how many such beats there are grouped together in

a bar.

➢ The lower numeral indicates the note value that represents one beat (the beat

unit).

Notes

● The note is the unit in musical rhythm showing the duration in which a tone or

movement (in the case of dancing) is taken.

Rest

● It is a character used to indicate silence or pause( in the case of dancing) for a

certain time.

Note and Rest Values - refer to the musical notation which give the exact duration

values of the rhythmic patterns.

Note and Rest Values

● Whole ● 4 Beats

● Half ● 2 Beats

● Quarter ● 1 Beat

● Eighth ● 2 to 1 Beat

● Sixteenth ● 4 to 1 Beat

● Thirty-second ● 8 to 1 Beat
COUNTING

● Counting is the most practical way to describe a rhythmic pattern.