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Friday, 28 August 2015

Getting Our Members Ready

Margaret is always telling us that we should “Listen to the music”.... that is to identify the beat and to understand why and where Restarts and Tags apply, also that dances can be “fitted” to other tracks and how a change of music can revamp old dances, also that the ability of doing this is an advantage when at social events. So with this in mind the improver’s class did some of the old favourite dances to alternative music, i.e.

Just for Grins we did to Alan Gregory’s Johnny Be Good. Little Bluff which was choreographed to Tracy Byrd’s “You Lied To Me”, was danced to “Don’t Tell Me What to Do” By Pam Tills and “Ribbon of Highway” to B R 49’s Devil’s Shadow.

This class also learned a new dance “Rio De Amor” (River Of Love) This is a new and easier dance to a John Arthur Martinez song River or Love....

Later the Intermediate class was ‘treated’ the original dance El Rio Amor choreographed to the same track by Peter Metelnick & Alison Biggs..and that was a whole new ball game!

From 6PM to 7.30MP

7.30 PM Till 10 PM

I can't find a link to the harder version of Rio De Amor as yet but I will try for next time
I am having trouble with copperknob every time I go on they I get swapped with adds I have email the site and said I will look for another site that has dance sheets. So just be aware when going on that site.

| It's High Time | 80 Proof |Good Luck Girl | Hot Wheels | Little Liza Jane | Open Arms | || Mile Shy Of Paradise | Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Eureka |

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Some Old Dance Are Great

As I said in the heading some of the older dances are really good I think there is a myth that the older dance aren't as good as new dances, but I don't think that is always the case, Lately Country Roots Rhyl has been revisiting older dances like Tumbling Rush, Two Bottles Of Beer, In-Vince-ible, on Monday night the class went over Bittersweet Memory, all these dances are really nice to dance, so lets not write these dances off just because their knee might be knocking, as someone remarked to me "Messed Up In Memphis is a dance that will be played at live venues for ever because of the solo guitar riffs in that song, the musicans can show case they skills." And now to things in we did in class

We Do Make A Difference

This is where we at Country Roots can help other people, learn new dances weather they are old or new. The first picture is a screen grab as I was look on you tube for the dance In-Vince- ible, and Country Roots is rated third from the top of the page in terms of intresting items.

This came up in a general search on you tube, the next picture is again a screen grab of a video we made in Country Roots Rhyl to help our beginners last year, and now it has been viewed over 6000 times which I think is a good result.

The Improver's Class

The Advanced Class

The Advanced class are still revisiting the older dances. But this is a new dance called Open The Box. This will be taught to the Improver's class eventually this is a dance 48 count Beginners /Improver dances by Gaye Teather that would fit a lot of live songs. As yet there isn't any videos out but I don't think it will be long before one is out. I have made a link to the dance sheet.

Blog Archives
This is a short video showing you how to use the archives it is well worth a look.

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

I Have A Question?

The question is how many dances can you do without having a walk-through it's more than you think it is. I found this out the last time Country Roots Rhyl had a social night. We did dances for 2 year maybe longer and if at the time you like the dance it does stay in the memory banks. Even if it takes 2 walls to sort your feet out. I returned to Line Dancing 6 years ago and I couldn't tell you how many I could do be until I heard the music and then work out the step. of our social night I only sit out a few time so that was pretty good, But Dance Instructors they have a skill to remember dances from 10, or 20 years ago, which is really amazing.

The Beginners Class

The Beginners Class is the same as last week to make sure they understands the new dances they are doing.

Advance Class

The Advance Class have also been doing the same dances as last week mainly because we have had a lot of new dances and we just need some more practice We have got one new dance called New Shade Of Blue By Yvonne Anderson nice dance it flows really nicely.

Please don't forget you have more dance look in the index on the right hand side

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Starting From Scratch

We had three new beginners started on Monday night and it just reinforces the fact that when you start out learning how to line dance you will find it really hard people that have line dance for a long time take in for granted that the steps are the same they're just in a different order so when you get the step in the right order you have the dance beat. When you are an absolute beginner you have to learn the steps and then the dance. much much harder and we all tend to forget this when a beginner start in class. This is why I and other members of class do our best to point the right way show them step show them not to take big steps which is and common thing when learning, but evenully they do improve and three months in they will be much better.

Beginners Class

Because we had some new beginners in class we went back to basics Cowboy Charleston Elvira , Ribbon of highway and alike so here are just a few of the dance Charleston The dance you see here the music may be different but the step are the same.

Advances Class

We did a new dance on Monday night Rock & Roll King. Nice dance lovely rock and roll music we also had another go at Hard Work with a better result this time I think the more we did it the better it will be.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

How To Navigate This Blog

Welcome to this blog, I have have a few members saying they aren't sure how to find the dances. But all the dance are there, and I will show you where to get them.

This window can be found on the right hand side of the blog page as you as see the dates are the first indicator then the month,

when you click on the month you will see a number this is the amount of pages that has been written in that month, as you can see there are 2 pages in December click on anyone and there will be dances on that page.

when you click on a title of the page in will open on that page this one says Welcome to another Country Roots Blog.

The other way to find a dance is to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the name of the dance or link that you need.I hope this helps people find what they need I will also make a video showing you have it works in more depth soon.

The Beginners Class

These are the dance the beginners did the week. The first dance we did was Mexican Wind I will set up the link to the dance sheet but there isn't a video of a singles dance click here for dance sheet.

Here are the videos I could get.

Advanced Class

The advanced class had some new dances this week We Only Live Once nice dance love the music the steps are a bit strange in parts but is OK. Another dance was Once in a lifetime nice easy sort of dance. the last new dance was called Hard Work and it lived up to is name. Is really was hard Work this only 32 counts but so many turns one way then the other, but we will get there in the end. See videos below, along with some of the other dances we did on Monday night.

| Hard Work | We Only Live Once | Once In A Lifetime | That's Just Me | This Is Me | Morning Sun And Memories |

If you don't see a dance you want please follow the steps that I have set out at the start of this blog. Because every dance we have done is on this website you just need to navigate to it. If you are struggling just facebook me and I will help.

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Happy New Year Were Are Back.

Well another year has started and there are lots of new dances to learn when you have a two week break if makes you realise how much you miss line dancing when the club is closed for the Christmas holidays. But as I say we are back. And there is some exciting news Country Roots W.D.C to give it the full title will 20 years old in September so we are going to have a party with live music, I will make a power Point prestation from all the pictures that the members has amassed over the twenty year. and as the band is playing the pictures will be scrolling all night long.

Sad Loss

One of our members Rita Hulley lost her husband Peter after an Illness you can see the time of the service on the Country Roots Line Dance face book page.

The Beginners Class

Well the beginner started of nice and easy just going over some of the dances they started with. and then some of the harder dance they had learned at the end of 2014 dances like Shadowlands, and Sea Cruise, and Back and Forth. But last night they learned another dance called Baby Kiss this is something different because this dance has Chesterton's toe heel stomps back hitches the lot all in one dance and if you are a beginner the dance will be very challenging see links to the dances below.

The Experienced Class Members

As with the beginners this week was all about remembering the dances from last year and we did really well over all. We also learned two new dances Once In A Lifetime is a nice dance it has a nice flow to it once you learn the step. the other dance is an old dance called Patient Heart it's about 12 years old and really quick, I like the music to this dance but the is a part where you have to kick-ball change and turn at the same time well I did struggle with that but I wasn't a lone.

The first Patient Heart is music This is a walk-through not in English but works.

Patient Heart | Once in a lifetime | They Call Me The Breeze | Morning Sun Memories | Mile Shy Of Paradise

Just Be Careful

This picture shows just how difficult running a website is and how easy you can make a mistake look how many dances here have the same name the choreographer could name the dance anything why the same as all the rest.

Well once again I hope you find the blog interesting please go to country Roots Line Dance Club on facebook and leave feedback or it gets lonely in cyber-land on my own.

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

When Are Old Dances New Dances

The thought came to me last night when we were doing dances from 18 to 20 years old, and while the veterans of the line dancing club remembered them after a while, spare a thought for the other people that have been dancing for about 5 years. I have done some of the older dances, but the ones we did last night I have never heard of, I and other members hadn't even heard the music before so to us they were all new dances. You can a have good dance live on for years, as new people come into line dancing they start with the older beginners dances, like Ribbon of highway, Cowgirl Twist, cowboy charleston may be some newer beginner dances, but the point is we all have to learn the dances and just because the dance is 18 years old is doesn't mean there not any good, a dance I hadn't heard of until last year was T Bone Shuffle I'm not when it came out but I heard this music and people started to dance to the music, I asked someone about the dance and I told told it's be out for ages but to me I had to learn that dance on that night as something completely new and why if you go to a line dance club there is always something you can learn.

Last Nights Dances

Lover's Hideaway
Dance Sheet

End Of My Rainbow Dance Sheet

Other Dance Were