Things are getting serious now!
We started this lesson off with learning to 'hear the music'.
The clave (pronounced claa-vey) forms the foundation of salsa - if you listen for it, you'll find it has a distinctive beat. Not all salsa music will have the clave, but there will be an instrument in the background tapping out the clave beat. We improvised using some things we found in the kitchen....a cheese grater and a couple of sticks of Blackpool rock (because of course, everyone has those lying around!). I'm not sure we could form a salsa band quite yet, but its still early days....
And as promised, we showed you a variation on the cross body lead from last week - a cross body lead with a half nelson (where leaders dont let go of the followers hands during the cross body).
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