Wednesday, December 23, 2009!
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ello :D
MATTHEW ONLINE WEEKLY is here to revive teh blog! :/
alright so if you don't have short term memory lost, you will remember we did a short choreo as well as freestyled today.
the choreo quite hard la. go download the song and practise. it's called symphony by a lot of people according to jessica :D
anyway next up, more importantly is the freestyle session.
i thought today was pretty good. you guys all went up without hesitation to freestyle (: that's a great improvement from before, attitude wise. keep it up :D
but right now i'll talk about what freestyle really is, and how you guys can improve on it.
basically i'll just be summarising stuff i've read all over the net. you may have read it before but just read it again :D
freestyling is in short dancing to music impromptu. (duh)
so you might wonder, how the hell do i come up with something to throw out on the spot if i haven't heard the song before?
and then some of you would end up spamming downbeat and some move you may have pre-choreographed before.
like what anan said, freestyle isn't about just going up there and spamming all the moves and technical stuff you know.
it's about listening to the music, and getting the rhythm and the feel of the song.
it's comparable to writing a compo (:
so for writing a compo (your freestyle), you'd need
proper grammar, a
good vocabulary bank,
punctuation, as well as good
ideas (:
grammar in a compo would be like your flow while freestyling. just like grammar in a compo, flow would be essential to proper freestyling, otherwise people won't be able to understand what you're trying to do on the floor.
vocab would be like your moves. although freestyling isn't all about moves, it's obviously important to have come basics and techniques la duh.
next, very important. punctuation would be like your rhythm. remember to vary your rhythm. like instead of going "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8" and throughout the whole of your freestyle, try going "1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and". something like that.
can you imagine a whole compo with abosolutely no punctuation at all and just a monotonous chunk of words? that would be what your freestyle would end up like without rhythm.
also, very importantly, is your ideas i.e. your content in your compo. this would be like the feel in your freestyle. listen to the music, decide on what you want to do, how you want your freestyle to be like, be it strong, smooth, funky, more upbeat or more downbeat. try to fit it more to the music.
the music would be like your compo question. if you don't answer the question your compo will end up weird. same thing goes for your freestyle (: like, if you see someone krumping to a song like mad by neyo what would you think? a bit exaggerated la, but you get the point. vary your freestyle according to different songs.
bascially this is all i can think of now for ways to improve your freestyle. try to read up more on your own. understand more about hip hop, more about dance. understand more about what you're doing for almost a year already :D
alright that's been a whole lot of words. hope you guys actually took the time to read through that. see yall at dance camp! (:
