UKSALSA CHAT | SUZYQ CHAT 

Subject:  Music
From: Brendan (Brendan Brolly)
Date: 2nd Nov 2005, 11:32 am

Does it really matter as long as the student can understand when the teacher means? As long as they have a common frame of reference then it shouldn't make a different whether they count it 1-8, 1-4 or 1-6. The 1-8 count seems to work fairly well with the style of salsa taught over here (in the UK) as the leaders (and followers) are usually doing something different each side of the clave and remembering to do something on 6 is easier than doing it on the 2nd 2. It's also used by most teachers I've come across (though I have done a lesson where the teacher got up to 12 at one point).

Brendan