Hi Anthony, can you do a lesson on how to dance pachanga? I’ve been watching the videos of Eddie Torres giving his lessons on youtube, and I’ve been trying to practice his exercise where he bends his knees back and forth, but I can’t seem to get the feel for how to do it right. Or do you happen to know some good pachanga lessons on some salsa dvds I can buy?
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cold.salsero
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angelmar99
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Nayan
Hi everyone! Hope you all are doing well.
I need help – need the name of this song -> http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1298515153668&ref=nf
The song clip starts at 02:01. Any comments?
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dmaister
Hello! If anyone is in the Miami area, just wanted to inform you all that SalsaCraze classes are once again starting for the new year. First class if free!
SalsaCraze
We teach group based Casino Rueda Salsa; extremely fun environment!
First class is free, after that, $25 for the entire semester (13 weeks).
Wednesdays: 7 PM Beginners, 8 PM Intermediate
Fridays: 6 PM Beginners, 7 PM Intermediate, 8 PM Advanced
University of Miami – Coral Gables Campus, 2nd floor I-lounge. Check site for directions.
E-mail: SalsaCraze@gmail.com
Website: http://www.salsacraze.orgSee you there!
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Franky
Hi all,
I’m trying to figure out the names of 2 songs I recorded from a workshop. My Spanish is pretty poor …
Perhaps you know them?
http://frank-foto.de/x/Song1.mp3
http://frank-foto.de/x/Song2.mp3
Thanks for any hint!
Franky
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ALONZO
hi anthony and julie I’m new to this great world of salsa I’m Latin but I do not know the forum rules so I practice my english. I have some questions about the salsa dance I seen the podcasts find salsa beat (very good) but I have a question about in some salsa songs dont use or I could not hear the “clave” my question is in what can I “basarme” to find the salsa beat in this songs…. thanks(sorry for my english)
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Marco
Though I am a proud Spanish speaker, it is unfortunately my second language and some of the more unusual words get the best of my Google translator and me.
The corus in El Cantante “Hoy te dedico mis mejores pregones” the word pregones could use some refining in my vocabulary.
I have seen “cries” as the direct translation. I take the”s” off and the translation gets a bit more reasonable with “preaches.”
My guess, from understanding the rest of the lyrics is that the meaning is closer to “sermon” or “lamentations.”
Someone set me straight =]
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Naveen
Anyone know this salsa song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mCbQuoyrc
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Salsa-101
Attitude Drives Behavior
Attitudes drive behavior. Your body language is a result of your mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you get in that mood and send out a message that everyone understands, consciously or unconsciously.
Besides learning the moves, postures, and steps to a dance, you need to develop ATTITUDE. Attitude is your
showcase to the world. Wether it’s an interview for a job, declaring your case (in court), walking into a room full of strangers, or stepping on to an empty dance floor. When you have attitude you are in control, you look and behave like an expert. Basically you know what you’re doing, and you’re going to do it your way.This is one of the techniques from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ taught to the beginners. Before you can look good, you have to ACT good, before you can act good you have to THINK good, before you can think good you have to have ATTITUDE.
Got Attitude ?
Ramón N
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havechipsneedsalsa
I’ve been doing Salsa for about a year now. I’ve been going to clubs on average once a week, maybe as much as 3 times. I’m a member of the local Salsa Dance Performance team, but I can’t social dance well at all. I’ve been studying the videos shown here, but it’s hard to practice alone. I don’t have many friends that salsa, and the ones that do are too busy dancing with the pros. Lately, private instruction and dance studios have been on my mind so that I can finally dance like any other guy. Of course, I’ve also fallen for a beautiful salsera, but she wants to dance with the pros. What am I missing here? Does anyone think the privates and studios are really worth the money? I’m working part time and I am limited by my budget. Any other suggestions and tips would be great! Thanks.
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ahri
Hello.
I’ll just paste my question from Facebook Fan page as noone really reads it sadly
.I live in a country that most of you never heard of. We try to dance salsa here
. But, we are more or less dancing to the same old music, even in clubs. Could anyone recommend me some topchart of popular new salsa songs in various (big) countries, or where I could find some _new_ music, or just a list of new (good) albums, or anything.
Everything I find online are old songs, even on “2009 compilation”, there are several songs that are 5 or more years old.So basically, how to find out what’s “popular and new” nowadays.
Thanks!
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melon
hi, does anyone know of any good salsa clubs in the bay area (preferably near san jose)?
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dtma
This site should have a web-based styling training section, where people upload videos of themselves on YouTube and you and other user comment on them, giving tips on what they should improve.
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EdP
Hi Anthony and Julie,
I tried to pay my respects via the Contact Us page, but Mr. Akismet notified me that he will not pass them on to you. So here it goes.
Thank you so much for sharing your salsa videos with the entire world and for making it look easy. Also the tips are excellent. Really appreciate it!
One thing that I haven’t been able to figure out, even after following your ‘guess the song’ episode, is the song to lesson #34 (Simple Salsa Mixer). The only thing I can come up with are Grupo Latin Vibe or Sexteto Latino Moderno, both of which are likely not the artist. Or is it Tito Puente? Please, put me out of my misery, would you?
Thanks again,
Edward (The Netherlands) -
WilliamZhang
What is the difference between On1 Timing & On2 Timing?
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cold.salsero
There’s a song called “Samba Pa Ti” by Santana, and I’m not quite sure what kind of music it is. It starts off like a bolero (syncopated on “and 4 and 5…and 8 and 1…”), but about half way through, the percussion changes and it doesn’t sound like bolero anymore.
Is it salsa at that point (doesn’t really sound like it to me)? The title says samba, so maybe it’s samba, but I don’t really have a good grasp of what samba sounds like, so I don’t know. Does anyone else have a clue?
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Vatos Loco
Mr. Persaud!
I just can’t thank you enough for all the videos and tips you provided me with your website! I just started dancing and I am now really addicted to salsa. I have improved a lot of my dancing skills by all your tutoring videos that are so well described and enjoyable to watch. I am really looking forward for new updates!Keep up with your great work and passion; you are making it really infectious to all the fans!
Moly
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poderoso_tiburon
Well this a great page but I can´t download the firt videos, when I try download I see the video but I can´t download ,could you help me please?
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jiruiz78
Hello fellow salseros and bachateros!
Here’s a a compilation of a bachata choreography by Juan Ruiz and Samantha. I tried a different approach on the video, instead of recording just “a performance”, I jointed together various performances even our training sessions to make it look more like a music video
Enjoy the bachata moderna performance and comments are welcome!
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speedrace
well i thinks its funny, so here we go
i was at this salsa club ( Anthony Persaud was the club too and i went ahead and said hi. yay !! ) sorry for the distraction lol.. anyways i danced with few ladies, well im a beginner ( 7 months salsa ) but i am confident about the moves i do. i went ahead and asked this lady
me : would you like to dance with me ?
she looked at me and asked “who do you dance with ? ”
i was like whoaaaa, i didnt expect a question like that and i didn’t know what to say and i just looked around and said “girls” and walked away..well what does it mean ? she only dance with ?? well i don’t know, i couldnt figure it out yet..any help ? lol..
lonbluster 1:41 pm on February 6, 2010Permalink |
Hi ColdSalsero
I went through this, and can explain something…I’ll think to make a video with my camera…indeed there ain’t many good around. Torres is very short at giving detailed explanations, though he is a very good example.
So… on Pachanga you have you’re knees bent on the downbeats(DB), which mean 1-3-5-7, while you are on maximun standing up on the upbeats(UB) 2-4-6-8. This means that when the DB occurs you’re legs muscles thighten for stopping the bent downwards to start going upwards, while when you are on UB you have reached the full lenght of your body extension and start to release the muscles to go downwards.
So actually you can notice (which is something I couldn’t get at the beginning) that the movement for the 1, or 3 or 5 or 7, has to start a bit earlier, so that you can react with your muscles precisely on 1 3 5 7 when you are down.
You can notice that this explanation is very precise, like if you don’t have time to think for all these movements, which at a certain level will occur automatically on your body, but they must be regulated with the careful listening to the music.
So what you have to do is to find cross references in the music being played, otherwise you will lose very easily the timing, which is foundamental in pachanga.
Cross references means you have to listen to different patterns in the music, so the most obvious is listen for the DBs. It is not easy, maybe impossible(for the attention) to listen both for the DB and UB, so just start with the DBs.
Then you start to follow the Clave which spans for 2 measures, from 2 to 8: 2-3-5-6½-8. Here you can see that in 3 and 5 you will match the DBs that you were following at the beginning.
And you can see that if you keep listening to the clave you also have the 2 and 8 UBs.
In turn these UBs correspond to the conga or the cowbell, and this will help your styling. You don’t really have to focus on those UBs, but just use them to refine your style.
in summary you have to switch your attention starting with the DBs, then focus on the clave, and lastly on the conga (or the UB instruments).
Eventually on a per song basis, you will find other patterns other than the clave which will make your pachanga really interesting.
I hope that was not too long. Anyway Pachanga requires a lot of energy, not much for the muscles(yes, at the beginning be careful!!), but more for the attention you have to apply, which will make you fully inside the music. Cool, ain’t it??
Don’t get stuck on the same basic exercizes, start with simple shines as well, as Torres shows.
Another advice: just do it with high quality portorican-jazz salsa, where all instruments are well marked, like with Ray Barretto’s Salsa, for instance. Also Ismael Rivera is great for Pachanga.
cold.salsero 6:23 pm on February 6, 2010Permalink |
Cool, thanks for the tips Ion, I’ll try them out!