Elevate Your Dance Fitness Class with Fresh Soundtracks for Choreography!
Pure Energy Music’s Label Manager and seasoned dance instructor, Nikkie Riozzi, shares exclusive insights and best practices below for choreographing to Go Dance Volume 6 – a mixture of Pop, Rock, Hip Hop and R’n’B music designed to soundtrack dance classes.
How to use Go Dance Edits to choreograph single track dance workouts:
Each track has 1 x 16 or 32 count introduction before the 32-count phrases kicks in.
Intro: The introductions provide time to get to your teaching spot or brief your class on their starting position and what the class will entail.
Build: After the intro, the beat will build and slowly bring you into the first part of the track. Within the ‘build’ instructors should introduce the breakdown of the choreography.
The Drop/ Bounce: When there’s an increase in overall energy within the track, you can take inject bigger moves.
The Verse: Verses are structured in 64-counts (these can be either 2 x 32s or 1 x 32 repeated left and right).
The Chorus: Chorus sections are structured in 64-counts – the choreography should be bigger here than in the verses (as the chorus is the climax of the song).
Freestyle/ Bridge: In this break, you can take the opportunity to let your class recover, or add in another section of choreography if you wish!
Then, the arrangement will repeat.
Here’s a breakdown of the structure of each track within Go Dance Volume 6:
Warm up track “Danger” 130 BPM
Intro: 1 x 32 counts
Build: 1 x 32 counts
Guitar Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts
Guitar Build: 1 x 32 counts
“Ahhhh” Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts
Guitar build: 1 x 32 counts
“Ahhhh” Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Guitar Build outro: 1 x 32 counts
Pulse Raiser track: “So Fresh” 120 BPM
Intro: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Build/ Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 2 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Build/ Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 2 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Build/ Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 2 x 32 counts
Pop Commercial track “Naughty” 115 BPM
Intro: 16 counts
Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Verse low: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts (aahhhs)
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (alarm)
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Verse low: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts (aahhhs)
Rap verse: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts (aahhhs)
Verse low: 1 x 32 counts
Finish
Pop Hip Hop track “The Night” 110 BPM
“Ahh” Intro:
Vocal: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Vocal: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 2 x 32 counts
Vocal: 1 x 32 counts
Vocal low: 1 x 32 counts
Dance track “A Little Crazy” 125 BPM
Intro: 16 counts
Beat: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Verse low: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Verse low rap: 1 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (a little crazy)
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Beat: 1 x 32 counts
Pop dance track “Stranger in the night” 124 BPM
Organ intro: 16 counts
Build: 1 x 32 counts
Rap Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Beat Rap Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Bridge: 1 x 32 counts (eyes on me)
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts, 16 counts
Rap verse: 1 x 32 counts, 16 counts
Bridge: 1 x 32 counts (eyes on me)
Chorus: 2 x 32 counts
Speech verse: 1 x 32 counts
Beats and bells: 1 x 32 counts
Finish
Hip Hop track “Outside with it” 70 BPM
Intro: 1 x 32 counts
Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts (outside with it)
Freestyle/ Build: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Fizzy outro to finish
80s Pop Dance track “Are you in, Are you out? 115 BPM
Intro: 16 counts
Build: 16 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts (“are you in, are you out?”)
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Low Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 2 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Low Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Pop Rock dance track “Gotta be startin somethin” 118 BPM
Intro: 1 x 32 counts
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Rock beats: 1 x 16
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (“how I feel”)
Verse: 1 x 32 counts
Rock beats: 1 x 16
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Low Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts No Beat
Chorus: 1 x 32 counts
Finish
