Revision Night Mon 28.10.20.13

Revision Night

Hello to all our members, well  last night was revision night we did some very old dances and the very latest dance as well. There was some reminiscing about some of the older dances, I suppose it's the same for any music from the past you remember where you were when you heard a certain song, so it's the same for a line dancing. You might have been away with friends to an event where you first did that dance this is what gives you great memories.

It always surprises me on review night how many dances you know even if you think you have forgotten them some of the dance comes back to you normally half way through the dance. I have listed the dances we did last night I can't promise to get links to them all but I will try.

  

|Nothing But Tail Lights |  Disappearing Tail Lights |  Inspiration | Ribbon of high way | This is me
Same Thing Happened  To Me | Cheap talk | Games People Play | Blue bayou | Silver Lining |
Shoe box | That's where I'll be | Suds in a bucket | April fool| Oklahoma wind | Sunny in Seattle California Blue | Red molly | Boys Of Summer |
 For dance sheets please see our Labels and search for the dance you are looking for. 

  Musical  Event in Rhyl

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When Is Line Dancing Not Line Dancing?

When Is Line Dancing Not Line Dancing?

The blog head line does raise a good question? What is true Line Dancing, and does pop music really lend it's self to line Dancing. Well that will always be a matter for the individual, personally I don't think in general let's say top 40 chart music doesn't, if you listen to the music and watch the videos a lot of the dances are struggling to make the dance steps firstly fit, secondly flow, I say this because it is so important for a dance to flow through to the end of the dance. I don't have and dis-like for pop music I like all genre's and there are a few good pop songs that fit well to line dancing Olly Mur, is a good example of a pop song as opposed to a whole genre of music.

When it comes to line dancing it was made for the songs, and weather you like that individual song it would fit a dance, and flow through the whole song. This can be back up because when you go to a live band event you can dance many of the well know dances and do them to many different country songs, and in my own experience you can't easily do this with pop songs because mainly the dance is design to fit that one song, and even then they are having to put up to three or four restarts in a dance to fit that one song. We did a dance called The Boys Of Summer,(see link below) and in a way it proves my point, you are dancing the dance in the second half of the dance without any tempo to listen to, musical phrasing when away and you were left to count the eight beats sections that isn't line dancing. You can write you views in the comments or go to FaceBook country roots line dance club.

Boys of Summer

Boys Of Summer Dance Sheet

The Boys of Summer is a dance where the Phasing goes out and you find yourself having to count the beats for about a minute because you will go out in your timing.It might Grow on you as a dance only time will tell.

Sliver Lining
Silver Lining Dance  Sheet
The dance Silver Lining in a nice dance with just one tricky part which you will need to work at but will come with practice, the rest of the dance is fine and the music is nice.

Monday blog 21.10.2013

Winter Is Coming Soon

Well winter is coming the cold night will be on us soon, having said that last night in the dance hall was very hot, so by the end of the evening people were feeling quite drained. The session well well going over recent dances some of them are tricky and members still need a bit of help. We did learn one new dance called Silver Linings please see links below. these links are different to the normal links and computer problems so bear with me.

You Tube Silver Lining
Cooperknob Dance Sheet

 

Other dance we did last night were Shoebox, Driven, My first, That's Where I'll be, Same Thing Happen To Me,  and many more.

The March Of The New Dances Goes On

The March Of The New Dances Goes On

Well Monday night brought some new dances they were OK Margaret Gough was going to teach these a few weeks ago but other dances got in the way, one is a nice little dance the other is nice, love the song  the timing is a bit tricky, as a lot of new dances are.

Shoebox
Dance Sheet

Same Thing Happened To Me
Dance Sheet

The photo from all the recent events and away trips will be put up in the gallery I will try to do it after this post, also I will update the new dances page with all the recent dance we has practiced lately, which isn't as easy as it sounds because of the speed new dances are being released. we learn them and newer dances come out, and so when you run a web-blog you can get swapped.

Copy And Paste in FaceBook

I have made a short video on how to copy and paste any picture on a facebook page

Copy and Paste on FaceBook

 

Weekend Away

Weekend Away

Some members enjoying a weekend away on a Country Music Special organized by Alf And Josie Roberts, at the Royal Celtic Hotel Caernarfon. Artists included ;
Donna Wylde Texas Tornados, Black Stone River, Darren Knight, Richard Palmer and Tony Stanton’s Country Disco
It was nice to meet up with old friends.... a Great Weekend... Thanks Alf PLEASE TAG YOURSELF OR FRIENDS YOU KNOW THANK YOU.

IF ANY MEMBER SEES THEIR PHOTO AND DOES WANT IT ON FACE BOOK SEND A POST TO ME AND I CAN SORT THINGS OUT.

We Have Been Doing Some New Dances

Games People Play
Dance Sheet

                         

Monday Night New dances

Monday Night New dances

Hello Well Monday night brought new dances as well going over some of the more tricky dances like No Man's Land the timing on this dances is tricky, The new dance is called Games people play.See below.

Games People Play
Dances Sheets

Other Dances were.

No Man's Land
Dance Sheet

Let's Pray
Dance Sheet

My First Love
Dance Sheet

We would like members to take time to-day to remember Mary Heald who sadly passed away on 27thSept. Mary was a much loved and respected member of Country Roots and will be sadly missed. God Bless You Mary R.I.P. The Funeral was on the 7th at 3.00p.m. St Ann's Church Rhyl.

When Dances Grow On You

When Dances Grow On You

It is strange about dances some of them you like straight away, others you think I don't know. But after a while they grow on you like ivy up a wall. when you know the step and you get comfortable with the dance your view some how changes. We are doing some dances like that now, Driven by Robbie Fowler ( see link blow) I thought I personally would never do it properly but I love that dance now the more time I do it the more it grows on me.

Driven

Dance Sheet

We are also doing a dance called No Man's Land (see link below) I can do the dance in a fashion but it's hard, the timing and the turns are tricky, but when mastered will make you feel good. That's what  dancing in any format is all about making you feel happy, and if you struggle to learn a dance you fell great when you have do so.

No Man's Land

Dances Sheet

Monday Night Lessons

Monday Night Lessons

 Welcome to Country Roots Blog, where do I start. Well some night you get an easy nights when you know most of the dances, nice no stress. And then there are the nights where there are new dances. 

And some that aren't  too bad, and some were absolutely horrible.the dances that were OK are.

Dream Lover  fairly straight forward should soon get the hang of that. and This Is Me   again no real surprises nice dance.

Dream Lover
Dance Sheet  

This is Me
Dance Sheet

No Man's Land is a  lovely  dance  hard to master, the timing is tricky there are some odd turns, along with restarts and tags, having say all that when we get to grips with the dance and we will, because the class has had many tricky through the years and this is just another one.

No Man's Land

Dance Sheet

Well I personally do no what to make of the dance Driven see links below it's quick quirky but I like it, 84 counts seems a lot  but some of the beats are doubled up so you use up a lot of the count quickly. again the bridges are odd but you will get around that I personally like Robbie's dances. 

Driven

Dance Sheet