![]() Therefore, if we were to dance “on the off-beat”, we would start our three-step on the 2 and finish it on the 4. (For a more detailed explanation click here and go to the “On-beat and off-beat” section.) Contratiempo, then, is a way to say that we are dancing on the off-beat that is, that we are starting our three-step on the second beat. ![]() In music, off-beats are the 2 nd and 4 th beats. In short, some people seem to believe that these two terms mean the same thing.Ĭontratiempo literally means “against time,” but what it really means in musical terms is “on the off-beat”. The first major misconception about son that I have encountered is that of the apparent interchangeability of the terms contratiempo and son. Here is hoping this post helps clarify some of these (mis)conceptions about son once and for all, especially when it comes to timing. The following comments stem from my experience teaching the dance of son at different places and the questions that people have asked me during these lessons, and the overall misconceptions that I perceive as existing when it comes to son dancing. This post will be short (kind of) and to the point (hopefully).
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