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#Fundamentals of musicality series

Counting: Try to always count repetitions DOWN, from 8-1.

Don’t be afraid to sing your cues to the music….BONUS: If you have kids, this will drive them insane, LOL!! Get familiar with what it feels like to count to music.

Practice counting to your music 24/7: count in the car, count at home, count in your head.

Increasing the intensity as the music builds up, or softening your choreography as the music starts to quiet, creates an overall amazing experience for your clients.

KNOW YOUR MUSIC! Knowing where and when your music builds or gets softer can help you choreograph a great flowing class, and create an overall “experience” for your clients. Think of a BodyBarre™ class as an “experience” or “show”, if you will.

#Fundamentals of musicality series

Cueing with the music will help you be able to cue positioning of each series and count repetitions correctly, helping your class to follow your every move or cue.

Listening and being mindful of the beat and the 8 counts will help you keep track of how many repetitions your class has already completed.

As you know, all BodyBarre choreography repetitions are always done in multiples of 8’s (8 reps, 16 reps or 32 reps).

It will also help you to cue the next exercise ahead of time.

This is helpful, so students can follow you and stay with your cues and choreography…they will instinctually know when a change is coming. When cueing your students, it is important to keep up with the rhythm and the beat of your music.Even the best instructors can lose the beat or rep with a poorly mixed song.

If it changes more often than that, don’t use the song. A well mixed song will change every 32 counts.If I haven’t created a playlist I’m in love with, or am unsure of what exactly I plan to teach that day, I throw on a continuous mix, and that allows me the creativity to change my series on the fly! A continuous mix without words will help you listen to the beat and help your clients hear you when cueing a series. If you’re using different songs throughout your class, you MUST make sure that each series begins and ends WITH THE SONG. Use a continuous mix until you are experienced enough to choreograph a series to a song.

Find a song with the same BPM’s throughout it’s entirety.

:) Fundamentals of musicality and teaching a class: As a BodyBarre™ instructor this all may sound familiar to you, but it’s always great to have a REFRESHER. Music is one of the MOST important aspects of teaching a great class….and if you focus on staying with the beat of your music, your music can HELP YOU teach class. Another downer? The class starts and stops, making it less effective. It takes everything inside me not to disrupt class to move with the actual beat of the songs they are playing!! The class moves at a different pace, clients are confused and now have only the instructor to look to for any changes in the choreography. Ever been to a class where the instructor doesn’t count with the beat of the music? It drives you mad doesn’t it? I take classes all over the country, and it amazes me how many “great instructors” cannot count their repetitions with the beat of a song.