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Third Lesson
The Video Lessons Project
Hey, here is the third lesson, where we will learn the wonderful "shimmi" movement. Before we get to it, I want to talk a little about warming up, stretching and cooling down. My original plan was to deal with the subject by making a few lessons dedicated to these topics at the end of the first course, after learning all basic moves, but Mark and Connie Hurd brought to my attention the importance of mentioning it now.

Well, it is well known that any exercise should start with a warm up and stretching. There are many reasons why you should warm up and stretch before working out – the main one is injury prevention. Warming up and stretching help increase the elasticity of your muscles and connective tissues prior to putting them under stress. It means muscle and tissues are more relaxed and flexible, and it will help you get a full range of motion for the exercises that you are about to perform. I will not get deep into it now, if you wish to read more about warming up as well as cooling down, you can go here or here for example. What I do wish to do is add to this lesson some videos with optional warm up routines for you to follow until I prepare the lessons dedicated to it. Notice that it is recommended to dedicate 10-15 minutes to the warm up.
This is also a good opportunity for me to thank you for your comments. It is important for me to hear your opinions and comments on the video lessons.

Let's get to the lesson now:



The song we hear in this video is "Nour el Ain" sang by the Egyptian star Amr Diab.
I love the video clip!



Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (Arabic: ״¹…״±ˆ ״¯Š״§״¨‎) (born October 11, 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer considered the most popular singer in the Middle East. Diab has become one of the highest selling Middle Eastern artists of all time, as he was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 and 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer.  
His style is the Jeel, which is an Egyptian alternative to foreign popular forms of music that developed in the 1970's. Modeled after foreign rock and roll and pop music, Al Jeel became oriented around dance/pop, and had a background similar to reggae. Al Jeel also included many distinctively Egyptian characteristics, somewhat related to past Egyptian musical influences.
The style was called new wave by many, emphasizing the transition from the first form of Egyptian pop music to spring up in the 1960's, Sha'abi, which we mentioned in the previous lesson. Sha'abi had sprung up in the slums of Egypt as a type of ghetto music, but after a decade of popularity the educated youth of Egypt began to look for different styles of music. Internationally savvy, high-tech Al Jeel became the music of the educated, well-to-do youth. Sharing common roots with Algerian Raï and Pop-Raï, Al-Jeel incorporates Bedouin, Nubian, and Egyptian rhythms with bass and synthesizers.
Most of the information here is taken from Wikipedia. Read the full articles of Amr Diab and of the Al-Jeel style.

And here are the warm up routines you can follow:





As always, a hip scarf like the one I wear can be bought in the boutique.


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