Ayizade, that is an EXCELLENT idea about writing to Hossam Ramzy with suggestions for the next DVD (if there is one). I bought the Visual Melodies after having read his commentary on his website and thought that what I would be getting was completely different than what I got. It's nice dancing, but it's not something one would intuitively pick up unless you happen to be especially gifted in that way...and if I was I wouldn't have needed to buy the video.
I have decided that the best way to learn is by watching dancers dance. I recently broke down and bought one of the Stars of Egypt dvd's and one of Fifi Abdo (who is my absolute favorite dancer!) and I plan to watch them both a few more times before sitting down with pen and paper and break down the rhythms, and then go back and look at combos the dancers use with those rhythms. Then, go back and listen to the instrumentation overall, and take a relook in that light. I can't help it, I'm very methodical, and it's the only way I can learn -- by putting it into logical terms.
In that sense, regardless of the validity of some of Sausan's assumptions, I can agree that there IS a logical way to approach the dance, and there IS a sort of code there. The trick is figuring it out.
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