A good test for hearing the beat by counting sets of 8 is to flip the radio dial, stop on random songs and accurately count the sets of 8 and know you’re right. It took me about a year of dedicated practice before I could do that 90% of the time, but it was closer to two years before I could do it 100% of the time and have the confidence to know I was right. Part of the test is to know if a particular song is dance music, which I’ll go into in my next post.
Every Man’s Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing
ballroom dance instruction for the untalented and the rhythmically challenged
[...] of the test in the prior post includes the ability to know if a song is danceable. For me, if I can count sets of 8 and if it [...]