Johnathon, thanks for taking the time to reply. I still have questions regarding NC-2step,but I won't take up any more of your time with that. I would,however, like to address your comments about swing/jive. I don't necessarily believe everything I read and I know that anybody can be wrong at any given time, but the revised technique of latin american dancing by the Imperial society which has been revised 5 times (I think) over a 27 year period still says jive is 3/4,1/4,1. Now, something ain't right with this. They could easily have made a mistake when writing the book, but I think it should have been fixed during 27 years and 5 revisions-don't you?If you are correct, then you or someone else should straighten out those Imperial guys. Anyway, whats your take on all of this?

Just a simple answer.....

There is no jive music with the beat values 3/4 1/4 1. All jive songs are 2/3 1/3 1 or 1/2 1/2 1. Almost every musician can tell you that. You are dancing to the music so you have to dance 2/3 1/3 1 or 1/2 1/2 1 but never 3/4 1/4 1. Samba music has the beat values 3/4 1/4 1 in it.
Try to dance a jive to slow samba music and you will soon find out that you never dance a jive with a 3/4 1/4 1 timing. It feels very strange.
Can you give me just one good jive song which has the beat values 3/4 1/4 1?
So they must be wrong for over 27 years. They should listen to musicians.

Kind regards,

Fred
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