Back To Work

Back To Work

Hello Country Roots are back. we have had a break over Easter but now we were back to work. I think everyone was a bit ring rusty. but by the end of the night we all have our dancing heads in gear. The beginners learnt a new dance ( well I say new) Vertical Expression but to them I was new. And doing the research for this blog there are lots of versions 

There isn't a walk through so I have slowed down version of the dance with the steps in writing above. I will embed the video to help the beginner's

The Advance Class did a new dance called  South Australia it went down like a lead balloon the song is by Nathan Carter the song gets quicker and quicker to the point you can't move your feet quickly enough. I don't know if it will catch on , time will tell. see video below.

The beginners Class

       
 After a lot of searching I have found a demo of the Butterfly Waltz it's not in English but the steps are there so it really doesn't matter.

I have put two Waltz Across Texas because the first one gives you a long walk-through and the other one in a good demo.

Vertical Expression | Memphis Love | Tush Push | Haunted Heart |  Cheap Talk | Fly Like A Dove  | Waltz Across Texas | Shadowlands |Back And Forth | Sea Cruise | Piano Man | Something In The Water | Lonesome Me | Butterfly Waltz

Advance Class 

             

South Australia |  Walk With Me | Rock &Roll | There's The Door!| Heavenly Cha | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day |Till It's Gone | Eternal Secret  | Homegrown |

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

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Monday Night Dances

Monday Night Dances

Starting with the Beginners

The beginners have been doing a new  dance well new to them, dance is called Fly Like A Dove, the other dances they did was Something In The Water  they also did Waltz Across Texas as I have said before an old dance to some one that has been dancing for years, but it is a new dance for beginners.

 

  

I have put two Waltz Across Texas because the first one gives you a long walk-through and the other one in a good demo.

Cheap Talk | Fly Like A Dove  | Waltz Across Texas | Shadowlands |   |Inspiration |Back And Forth | Sea Cruise | Piano Man | Something In The Water |

The Advance Class

The Advance Class did a nice little dance Till It's Gone along with the others we have recently learned.Choreographer Pat Stott & Tina Argyle 64 Count Improver Level .

      
 

 Eighteen Lonely Months | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King | Slat & Lime | New Shade Of Blue | Modern Romance | One More Day |Till It's Gone |

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How To Navigate This Blog

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.

   
 
The Dance sheets to these dances.  |Something In the Water | Baby Kisses | Shadowlands | Lambtarra Rumba | Ham Jam's | Stroll Along Cha Cha |   Dance Sheet for Simple Waltz Click Here.

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.

Happy New Year Were Are Back.

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. 

      
Baby Kiss | Shadowlands | Back and Forth | Cowboy strut | How long |Lamtarra Rumba |
You can see many more dances by go to the top of this page and clicking on the right hand side under the dates and months of previous blogs when a blog is created it stay on the website for ever.

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.

 

Beginners Review Night

This is a really sad occasion 

Vera Williams a long time member of Country Roots has pass away and it is a real shame ,she was a lovely lady always had a smile even when she wasn't well.

 Beginners Review Night

Weather you are an old hand at Line-dancing or a beginner you need nights where you just over the dances you have done. And this is what we did in the beginners class. we  have had  4 new people started in the last two weeks. so a walk-though will help them get started because to start line-dancing without any prior knowledge is hard.  Hear are some of the dances they did.

   

The Advance Class

The class did two new dances last night  along with a lot of our recent dances, the new dances were That's just me, nice dance when you know the steps it will work well (see Bellow) the other dance is called champagne, I think it's fair to say most people struggled with this last night but it is like any dance that is a bit tricky the more time we do the dance the better it will be, again  see below for a video walk-through. Other recent dances are They Call Me The Breeze  Places I've Been they ist'n a demo of this dance. Salt & Lime

    

   

 Remember to have fun when dancing

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Time For A Change?

Time For A Change?

Has you can see I have changed to look of our blog! I think the design has a clean look to it, but all the content is still there. sometime change is a good thing, Line dancing has changed over the years and the way we can assess the information about line dancing has changed, we can now look at You Tube, Goggle a dance script,look on dedicated blogs like this one.

The dances themselves have change, more pop music is set to line dancing, and some of it is Ok and if line dancing is to survive we need young people to get involved, and if they like pop music they might like some of the more country tracks as well. So if you can give me so feedback on the new colours or if you have any suggestion   Please let me know either by Facebook @ Country Roots Line Dance Club or email countryrootslinedance@gmail.com.

This Weeks Beginners Dances

The Beginners class were introduce another  new dance called Simple Waltz (see links below) this as well as reviewing the other dances.Another recent dance they learned was Piano Man the other club members have being doing this dance for a two weeks now and starting to get into the dance.  The other dance was called Invitation Stroll another Waltz type dance just right for the beginner class. Other older dance standards like Cowboy Strut, Elvira and so on.
 

Piano Man Dance Sheet  Invitation Stroll Dance Sheet  Cowboy Strut Dance Sheet

New Dances For Advance Class

We are back after a weeks break (the center doesn't open on bank holidays) so it was part remembering what we did two weeks ago, and the when the brain is switched on we did a new dance called Push For The Stride I saw this dance on Copperknob a few week ago and loved the music and the dance links we be below. at the end of the evening we did a dance called Sea Cruise  Choreographed by Alison & Peter, it is a beginners dance but really nice I thing Margaret will teach this to the beginners next week.

  

Push For The Stride Dance Sheet  Sea Cruise  Dance Sheet  Waltz Till You Love Me Dance Sheet,  
The link to the Dance Factory is the best I can do for Sea Cruise the link take you to a page for dances with T's and S. the page is slow to load so do be in a hurry give the page time to loan in, for some reason the script wasn't on Copperknob. Other dance Shadowlands, Blueberry Chill, High Cotton and many more