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No.3: SALSA

Salsa music generally has a rhythm of four equal beats in one musical bar. This is interpreted as three steps and a tap, corresponding to the four musical beats. However, as you progess from the basic moves, the rhythm of four beats maybe interpreted in the dance by only three steps per musical bar. In this case, the dancers will use a count of "quick, quick, slow." A "quick" equals one beat of music, and the "slow" equals two beats.

Gavin becomes even more effusive on the subject of Scott Walker. "Scott has made a 21st century record in 'Tilt'. It's beautiful and even though he's getting hammered for it by certain critics, in ten years time they'll see it was ahead of its time as 'Climate of Hunter' was in 1984," he says.

"From an Irish context, one of the most personal songs I've ever written is on this album. You'd really need a thesis on Fionan Harvey, rather than Gavin Friday, to understand 'My Twentieth Century'! That's me, at 35, getting this ominous sense about the end of the century, while I sit there, pissed out of my head, in Mr. Pussy's at four-in-the-morning, getting all my ideas ready for when the century changes." [contd]

Joe Jackson

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