The Salsa Rhythm Machine teaches salsa-dance students how to find the elusive rhythm in salsa music. It plays music while displaying the beat-count, and gives helpful hints about how to find the one-count. The program also has a testing feature that the student can use to see if he or she really can stay on the rhythm. On the Basic Step window, the student can see two feet icons moving to the rhythm, and can follow along. The feet can be set to lead or follow, and break on the one-count or the two-count. By being able to follow along like this, students can learn much more rapidly since they can practice at home in addition to taking classes.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Erroneous concept. At it's best just a novelty item and not worth $40.
The premise for the software is less than sound, but more to the point, the features and promise of skills-based improvements in rudimentary rhythmic recognition made by the software developer are not aligned.
The developer claims that "No-one can teach Rhythm". A totally deluded statement from any perspective.
And further - "How does anybody ever learn? With the monkey-see-monkey-do approach." If you have a dance teacher who teaches like this, they can't teach , so find someone else who CAN teach. This software will not do it for you.
And my final quote from the developer's site - "As much fun as salsa is, when you can stay on the rhythm, you step into another world - a magical world where salsa becomes like heroin. No accomplished dancer wants to descend back into the rhythmless muck." *Sigh* - I think I will let the banality of that quote speak for itself. I suggest that the developer might like to rethink the advertising commentary, the price, the length of the demo, and some of the premises underlying the software.
At best - a significantly over-priced and completely underwhelming novelty item.