Country Roots: Cowboy Charleston

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Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Country Roots Has Lots Of New Dances

Hello and welcome to Country Roots sorry I haven't written a blog for a while I wasn't in class. But this week we lots of new dances and some very old dances, because we have a lot of new beginners started in the early class. some of the new members haven't danced anywhere before, so it was the old standards, to help them get into understanding the beat and tempo of the dances. Ok that's enough chat there's a lot to get through, so we will start as always with the beginner's and improver's class.

Who looks at YouTube for the walk-through's have a look at a walk-through that Margaret Gough did when the Beginner's class started one year ago. The video has been viewed nearly 8000 times. as yet I haven't looked at the rest.

The Alpine Dance sheet. they isn't a video of the dance

The dance is so easy you won't need a video of the dance.

Beginner's And Improver's Class 6.00 PM Till 7.30

The Intermediate Class 7.30 Till 10.00 PM
The first Sweet Mary Lou this is to music the other is a walk-throughThese are the new dances we have done this week, Well Do Ya? this is a fun dance quick and lively I can see the taking off.Sweet Mary Lou we all know the song this one is by the overtones some people lie it and some hate, you choose?
Love Her For A while really nice music wait to see if the dance take off.
Angeleno again lovely music and you know the steps you will like these

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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.

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Thursday, 18 June 2015

Just Because A Dance Is Old?

Hello the headline of this weeks blog, just because a dance it's an old doesn't mean it's past the use by date. For the last couple of weeks Country Roots Rhyl have been look at the old dances, some from the late 90's and 2000's, and some of these are really nice dances. So I think it's time we at on Country Roots Blog did some recycling with these older dances. The improver's have learnt You Little Bluff Robbie McGowan Hickie 2010 that's five years ago,I remember learning that when it was new, it's still a nice dance. going back further in time Dangerous Curves click here if you can't remember how it goes We have been learning Nimby , Open Arms uploaded to you 2009, New Dreams , In-Vince-ible, 2003 a really nice dances. (see these dances below.) The point is they are really good dances and they get left behind and it's a shame that it's only when we have review nights they ever see the light of day.

The Improver's Class

The Advance Class

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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.

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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.

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Quite Time Of Year

This is a quite time of year for us we done do any new dance just learn the dances we have done.

There is end of year Social Night where we just done all the dances old and new.

to help the Beginners we will do the basic dances along with the latest advance dances and everything in between.

The Beginners Class

We will show the dances the beginners have been doing this week.

The Advances Class

Here are the dances they did this week. As again this is just going over the latest dances we have been doing over the last few week.

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Line Dancing Is Not The Easiest thing To Do?

Country Roots has had a lot of new beginners starting this week and I reminded me of the time I started I went to a Line Dance venue called Fort San Antonio Great Birchwood,Country Park, Lytham Road. I thought it looked great So I came home went to Margaret Gough's class, and my god did I struggle I could believe how hard it was to get your feet and legs to do the steps in time to the music. But I worked at it at home and started going three times a week and you get better, you start to relax when dancing, take smaller steps all these things help and eventually you find you can do the dances and you learn new dances more easier than you could before.

Beginners Class

Well as I said new people started so we went back to basics for half the lesson so I have found so long walk-through's for the new people to try at home. But we also had a new dance for the improver's called Back and Forth (click all links for dance sheets) nice little dance just enough to stretch them see all dances below. | Smokey Places | Cowgirl Twist | Cowboy Charston | How Long | Ribbon of Highway |

The Advance Class

The class has had some Tricky dance the last few weeks and in class last night ( Monday) we had another not so easy dance called Morning Sun and Memories I Think I think it will alright when we are comfortable with the steps (Click links for Dance Sheets) other recent dances are That's Just Me and Champagne these two dances are coming easier now as they always do. see dances below.

We also did some of the older dance | Come as you are | Young Blood | This Is Me | and many others which are in earlier blogs just scroll back through the 64 other blog pages there is lots to see.
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