Lunging - What to Practice - Listening
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- So a lunge is not something that the follower does.
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- It's something that the two of you do together,
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- and you do it with the music,
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- and it's that involvement with each other
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- and with the music that can give it
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- such texture and meaning.
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- So as an example, if you, uh, listen to this small chunk
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- of music, I'm gonna do do a poorly
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- 'cause that's more fun, right?
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- Well, no, not really.
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- Oh, Right.
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- And that clearly was the lunch
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- that was disconnected from anything,
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- Including me, including the music.
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- So if we go to that same place in the music,
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- right, and that second lunge was different
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- than the first, they
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- Felt very different.
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- And so I want you to play with, with this idea then that
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- you're gonna put on music just a small section,
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- and you're gonna listen to it repeatedly
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- and you're gonna decide, um, is your lunge
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- or, or is it something else?
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- And, and then you two together with your partner,
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- you're gonna decide consciously
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- how you're gonna relate to the music.
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- And then later you'll do this
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- and you will, uh, for the leader, I want you
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- to surprise your partner.
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- But you know, not in the
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- Beginning, But,
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- but meaning don't tell her in advance what you're gonna do.
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- And then for the follower, you can have the experience
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- of being with the leader through the journey of the lunge.
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- I think that's important. It's a journey you take
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- together.
