Although I have been dancing for a number of years. I can not hear the beat. Recently I started lessons in SD where the instructor is great and counts out the beat when to start.
I have asked this question many times.
How can I train myself to hear the beat, to me this is embarrassing.
Ken

Kengraham. Not able to hear the beat. Which is wrong unless you are stone deaf. At your very beginning the whole class should have been made to count the beats, in for instance a Waltz, aloud. After walking around for years not dancing to the correct beat. I would sit with somebody who can count. With the music playing strum my fingers on a table top to the music counting and keeping time with my instructor.After tapping out every beat, of which in the Waltz is three to one bar, I would then tap only the first beat. In the Waltz as in most dances the first beat is accentuated. All of the above should have been done in the beginning. But it isn't , is it.Good Luck