Hi

I'm new to Foxtrot and I'm puzzle by the count of the step.

Slow - Slow Quick Quick or 1- 1 1/2 and 1/2 ?

but it is a 4/4 ?!

How should i count ?

Thnaks

You're right, Don. The approach you outline is used at advanced (sc. International Standard) levels. Check any number of Blackpool Dance Congress videos featuring Hillier, Sinkensen, etc. Or, if you're really ambitious, book a lesson with them when they're over here.

This is a reply to Bos:
You can find out about foxtrot on the web, but you'd need a good dance teacher to be able to dance it even reasonably.
the dance gets its name from a guy called Sydney(i think) Fox, who invented it in the 1920's
As the for music, Dronak is right about many frank Sinatra songs being gorgeous foxtrots. My own favourite is "without a song" recoerded with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra in 1940. However, this isn't much help to you, since you probably won't find this on the internet. so here's a link to some more modern ones:
http://www.dancelifeinternational.com.au/ItemList.asp?Type=5

Hope this works
The page gives you lots of dance CDs. Look for "Best of Ballroom Music Part 1" and click on the foxtrot tunes. You'll get a chance to hear typical foxtrot music.

The basic foxtrot that I know is Slow (2 beats), Slow (2 beats), Quick (1 beat), Quick (1beat).

The way you were counting each basic ends up being 3 beats, and the way I'm doing it ends up being 6 beats. Neither of these really match 4/4 time, do they?

However, if you do two basics the way I count then you end up with 12 beats, or three measures (4 beats per measure), and your next step is on the "1" of the fourth measure. Basically part of the time you aren't starting on the one beat, but on the three beat.

Does that help?

Kevin

Regarding Foxtrot Timing.It is as I was always taught easier to count a Slow which has two beats as Slow and. And being the second beat. A Reverse turn which has a Feather Finish at the end , is Slow and. Quick Quick. Slow and. Quick Quick. finishing with another Slow and. This of course the International style. If you wish the Slows can be counted as 1 2. and the Quicks 3 4.There is a problem for beginners and that is to make sure you are dancing with the music
which is not 3 4. 1 2. but 1 2.3 4.The former is dancing out of rhythm .