Dance Instruction Lessons with Slowed Down Music

A common use for Music Speed Changer is in the dance studio. An easy way to learn complicated dance steps is to see a dance instructor perform difficult steps in slow motion on beat to the chosen music and have the students repeat the choreography following the dance teacher's demonstration. It helps to have the choreography music play at the same rate that the student's are learning the steps to give a full understanding of synchronicity of the dance.

As a dance teacher, you will most probably want to set up your lesson plan by setting markers for each lesson segment. Markers are bookmarks that are set and remembered for each track to allow for easy jumping to marked points in audio files. Markers can index the loop A/B information. To learn more about setting markers on the points you want to have remembered, check out our Editor Components Video Guide (1:52)

To set up a dance lesson, you start out playing the music at original speed, showing the students the full dance they are going to learn
Dance lesson demonstration of original

The next step is to slow down each sequence and demonstrate steps in slow motion. You will want to set your A/B loop points on the first sequence you want to teach
Set A/B loop points on the first dance sequence

Slow down the tempo using the slider or clicking the tempo. To learn more about controlling tempo in the app, check out this article.
You want to start slow enough so students can clearly follow each move in choreography to the music
Slow down the tempo

As the students learn the steps, you can speed up the music until the dance class is up to speed on the choreography of the original sequence
Speed up the music

Once your dance students understand the first segment at full speed, you move your A/B points to the next segment and start the process over. You can reset your A/B points by clicking the X or click the edit button fine tune adjust. Again, using markers set up ahead of time will make this process smooth.
move your A/B points to the next segment

The dance instructor will repeat this process until the entire piece of music is choreographed at full speed and the students are able to perform at full speed
choreographed at full speed


Are you a dance instructor or student? We would love to hear your tips, tricks and experiences below!
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