Bass

What This Module Trains 🎯

Hear the bass. Dance the Son Step from the Conga module with two arm stylings.

The Instrument 🥁

• Bass. The bass can either be the electric bass or it can be like the big contrabass, depending on the band and the time.
• Contratempo. The bass is highlighting the upbeat, so it is a contratempo instrument.
• Tumbao. The tumbao is bum, bum, bum, bum, 8 2 4 6 8.
• Smooth. The key here is that the bass is a smooth instrument.
• Syncopated. In Salsa music it is going to play a syncopated rhythm, all sorts of variations of a tumbao rhythm.
• Counts. It highlights 8 2 4 6 8; the accents are on 4 and 8, 90% of the time.
• Son arms. This is the traditional son arms and it is just going to be a circle here of the arms.

How the Drill Runs 🔁

1. Son Step to music: 8, 2 3 4, 6 7 8, with the swipe.
2. Switch to the son arms.

Technique Cues 💡

• Start with the elbow.
• Twist your body right; the arm follows elbow to hand.
• Son arms: circle clockwise, step on the spot.

💡 Drill it: two arm stylings to really highlight that bass.

🎯 Community

Practice without judging yourself. Every dancer started exactly where you are. Be patient. This lands in the body over months, not days. Record yourself. You will see things you cannot feel. Post it in the community tab, or on Instagram tagging the page.