Warmup: Sexy Bitch (Club Mix)

1. Sexy Bitch (Club Mix) - David Guetta feat. Akon

For the past 6 months or so I've already decided that this release will be a dance release, but finding the right warmup track was tougher than I expected!

When I first heard "When Love Takes Over" by David Guetta & Kelly Rowland, it was love at first sight. I immediately slotted it in as the warmup, and even considered it's Electro Remix for the second half. But the more I listened to it, the more frustrating I got. It has such a rousing and beautiful melody, but I can't seem to put a move on it! None of the moves I tried out really does justice to it. So I had no choice but to shelve it for the moment and look for a new song.

Then, the new Black Eyed Peas single "I Gotta Feeling" flooded the radio waves. It took some time to grow on me, but I can certainly see how the lyric "I gotta feeling, that tonight's gonna be a good night" will fit into the theme of a great warmup track.

I did choreograph some simple steps for it eventually, but I felt the music buildup took a little too long. And then finally, I stumbled upon "Sexy Bitch" and everything kinda fit into place.

A hallmark of a great track is that the moves just speak out to me as I listen to it. It's hard to describe the process, but it's like I instinctively know how I should choreograph it when the different parts of the music comes together. And within 2 days I feel I've got a great groovylicious warmup track.

The structure is a little interesting for this track:

• Basic set up movements
• Flava movements
• Stretch sequence on Right
• Breakout choreo ("Damn, she's a sexy bitch!")
• Flava movements
• Stretch sequence on Left
• Breakout choreo
• Winding down moves - lead to isolations

Usually there's only one stretch sequence in a warmup track, but for this I split it up into two because the bridge of this song actually has a tempo drop. Again this is what I mean by "the choreography speaks to me".

I hope it's well-received! :)