Seguimos el ritmo durante la tanda de baile.

Here seguimos comes from seguir, which often means to follow.

In this sentence, seguir el ritmo means something like:

• to follow the rhythm
• to keep to the beat
• to keep up with the rhythm

So seguimos is not about physically following a person. It is about matching or staying with the rhythm.

Seguimos can be:

• present indicative: we follow / we keep up
• preterite: we followed / we continued

Without more context, the form by itself is ambiguous.

In your sentence, durante la tanda de baile could fit either:

• a present-time statement: We keep the rhythm during the dance set
• a past event: We kept the rhythm during the dance set

Usually, context tells you which one is meant.

By contrast:

• seguíamos = we were following / we used to follow
• seguimos = either simple present or simple past, depending on context

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

• seguimos tells you the subject is we
• so nosotros is optional

You could say:

• Nosotros seguimos el ritmo durante la tanda de baile

But normally Spanish sounds more natural without the pronoun unless you want emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• Nosotros seguimos el ritmo, pero ellos no
  = We kept the rhythm, but they didn’t.

Spanish uses articles more often than English.

Here, el ritmo means the rhythm / the beat, and that sounds natural in Spanish after seguir.

So:

• seguir el ritmo = to follow the rhythm / keep up with the beat

Saying just seguir ritmo would sound incomplete or unnatural in standard Spanish.

Because seguir is being used as a normal transitive verb here.

You follow something, and in Spanish that something is the direct object:

• seguir el ritmo
• seguir la música
• seguir las instrucciones

No extra preposition is needed before the thing being followed.

The only time you would often see a preposition with a direct object is the personal a, used before specific people:

• Seguimos al profesor = We followed the teacher

But el ritmo is not a person, so there is no a.

Durante means during.

It introduces a time period:

• durante la clase = during class
• durante la noche = during the night
• durante la tanda de baile = during the dance set

It is not the same as:

• en = in / at / on
• mientras = while

Compare:

• Seguimos el ritmo durante la tanda de baile
  = We kept the rhythm during the dance set.

• Seguimos el ritmo mientras bailábamos
  = We kept the rhythm while we were dancing.

So durante is followed by a noun phrase, while mientras usually introduces a clause.

A tanda is a set, round, or series of something grouped together.

In dancing contexts, especially partner dancing, a tanda de baile is a block or set of dances/music played together.

Depending on the context, you could think of it as:

• a dance round
• a dance set
• a set of songs for dancing

It is not necessarily the same as a whole party or event. It is more like one segment within it.

Because de baile is describing the type of tanda.

• tanda de baile = dance set / dancing set

This is a very common Spanish structure:

• clase de español = Spanish class
• zapatos de deporte = sports shoes
• sala de espera = waiting room

If you said del baile, that would usually mean of the dance, referring to a specific dance event already identified.

So:

• tanda de baile = a dance set, in general
• tanda del baile = the set/round belonging to the dance/event

Yes. Seguir el ritmo is a very natural expression.

It can mean:

• to follow the beat in music
• to keep up with the rhythm in dancing
• more generally, to keep pace

Examples:

• No puedo seguir el ritmo de esta canción.
  = I can’t keep up with the rhythm of this song.

• Los principiantes aún no siguen bien el ritmo.
  = Beginners still don’t follow the rhythm well.

So in your sentence, it sounds idiomatic and natural.

Yes. Ritmo can mean literal musical rhythm, but it can also mean pace or speed in a broader sense.

For example:

• el ritmo de trabajo = the work pace
• el ritmo de vida = the pace of life

In your sentence, because of tanda de baile, the musical/dance meaning is the most obvious one.

Yes, it is understandable and natural.

That said, depending on the exact situation, a native speaker might also say things like:

• Seguimos el ritmo durante el baile.
• Mantuvimos el ritmo durante la tanda de baile.
• Fuimos al ritmo durante la tanda.

Your sentence is perfectly fine, especially if you want to emphasize staying with the beat throughout that dance set.

In standard Spain Spanish, seguimos is pronounced approximately:

• seh-GHEE-mos

A few details:

• the g in seguimos is a hard g sound because it comes before u
• the u in gue/gui is normally silent, so gui sounds like ghi
• the stress falls on gui: se-GUI-mos

So the stressed syllable is the middle one.

Sometimes yes, but be careful.

In English:

• follow the rhythm
• keep up with the rhythm
• stay on beat

are often closer to seguir el ritmo.

Keep the rhythm can work in some contexts, but in English it may sound more like maintain the rhythm yourself, rather than follow it.

So if you want the safest meaning, think of seguir el ritmo as:

• to follow the rhythm
• to keep up with the beat