[CHOA's Shortterview 23] What is son basic? And why the Michael Jackson track? We asked multi-salsa's Son Nari

“Hook it up to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" — there's that beat that comes in on an eight-count, "dun dun da-da-da-da-da..." That's the point we use to practice the hand-count basic.”

CONTEXTExplaining why a Michael Jackson song shows up in the video, and introducing the hand basic practice method

“If the Eddie Torres basic is 1,2,3,5,6,7, then in the hand count you're also counting 1,2,3,5,6,7 — and that's what we call "power on."”

CONTEXTComparing the count structure of the hand basic with the Eddie Torres (mambo) basic