A Question About Tutting

[Darkdiamond542]

Do you hit your tuts on every bass drum hit?

Ive been having some trouble.....Ive noticed that alot of people that use very Intricate tuts normally dont hit every angle on the beat.....its hard to explain, its like thier on beat but they're not.....


I find myself trying to hit every tut angle on the beat...but as a result its much much harder to keep it going and I think its blocking me from learning new tutting concepts and Angles. I feel like I MUST hit every angle on every beat precisely or it wont look right. I want to learn new Tutting concepts and feels.

Im just wondering is it ok NOT to hit every angle on the beat....because tutting is a whole lot easier when its not on every bass drum kick or snare drum clap

[Snale]

there are no rules to dancing, aside from being yourself. therefore you dont have to ask if its ok that you do something.

you do it and thats that.

ppl can take it or leave it.

of course, im a renegade of dancing, so you may want to be careful with my response.

tut how you tut, and all will be well.

[jigsaw]

Come up with your eight counts,

then slice each one in half, and make successive eight counts,

and you can do that to infinity.

as far as riding the beat/connecting with the music...

i think it's critical to watch your patterns not take over your lovemaking with the sound.

i break that rule all the time and get lost in my patterns that uncertainly accentuate the music... but that's when i'm off.

when i'm on the musicality flows like wine.

my advice is to keep on doing what you are doing, but build on it, maybe even eclipse it once you've made the hill a castle there's no sense it calling it a hill anymore.

[nerdtron]

When I dance, I think of my body's movements as another instrument in the music, like a long guitar solo, or a bass that's just grooving with the beat. I don't exactly follow the *boom* *clap*; I add onto the song with my own rhythm/movement, but like a good musician (at least I try to be), I still always (try to) stay on beat.

I don't know if that helps or not, but that's the way I think of it. Don't think that being "on beat" is just hitting the bass drum and clap/snare, and nothing else. There is so much more to music.

[Snale]

i agree with ji gsaw.

know ur style, then master it by growing or building with it.

as far as music or the beat, use it how you want to.

if we all used the music the same, it would be very VERy boring.

[TETRIS]

Dont matter if u hit or dont hit jst as long as you do it logically and clean! 8)

Everyone has their own style of hitting/dimestopping/speed/ and feel to their tuts, do what feels comfortable to you and do you style~

Individualism in tutting is slowly fading away, original styles is a dying breed these days...

[Snale]

its not just tutting that is decaying :roll:

[LOGiC]

try thinking this

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RKfKieUxAzg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed>

[LOBO]

wow that clip was the shiznit......


that was like a big wet blowjob for my braincells

[Snale]

does that video make anyone feel like taking ...

http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/pee.jpg

... a GIANT PISS?

[TETRIS]

Logic that vid was DOPE

[Danis Kool]

Ive got a question

What feel should tutting be?

[TETRIS]

I like tutting to be robotic/mechanical as possible but again, each dancer has their own vibe and feel so its really personal preferece. The best tutters ive seen tho are mechanical and subtle. Silent but deadly haha

[Snale]

tutting + your interests/feelings = what tutting should feel like

[juggaloG421]

that video is SICK!
if i try thinking that while im practicing tuts im going to have a flashback and die.

yeah i like mechanical and intricate tuts. the whole illusion of tutting is what i like most about it.