New Beginners Class

New Beginners Class

Margaret Gough the owner and Line Dance instructor has started a beginners class at the club on a Monday night from 6.00 PM till 7.30 PM and this week we have been busy making the basic walk-through video for the beginner dances ( see all the dances below) I believe it will really help. Last Monday I was reminded of how line dancing looks so easy to people that  haven't yet tried it. But they have a shock  when they come and try it for the first time, I can remember my learning curve, I didn't know if I was coming or going. But then you start remembering the dances, and you get through the dance without going wrong  is a good feeling.

All Line Dancing Clubs needs new people to join, without younger members in our clubs the clubs can't survive, I enjoy helping new members because as I said a few lines back I still remember what I felt like walking into Margaret's club not knowing anybody, but the members where helpful, I was put in the middle of a line so which ever way I turn I could follow somebody. To anybody that has just started Line Dancing or is thinking about starting, just stick with it you will have a steep learning curve but in a short while it gets better. As  Margaret  says “It is a little like learning to drive a car, at first it seems so difficult, but the more you practice the sooner it all comes together..and the easier it becomes” and yes we have all been there...  Now here are the beginner dances

Other Dances We Did This Week

We did a dance called Holding Back The Ocean by Peter  Metelnick and Alison Biggs  this came out 2006. This dance passed me by, and it's not an easy dance to do but I love the music and that always helps. Have a look at the dance and here is a link to get [Dance Sheet ] the dance will bellow

 

Take Me Away  I like this dance and the song  see Dance Sheet here the is still a problem with these choreographers and their lack of imagination when naming dances as the picture shows

I rest my case . On Monday night the whole class work really hard remembering old dances and learning new ones, here are some of the other dances we did This is me No Man's Land Remember When High Cotton and many more Thank you for read our Blog this week.

The Clothes We Once Wore

The Clothes We Once Wore

This is an interesting subject in its own way, do you remember going to Events with all the paraphernalia, Boots, Shirt, Hat, and some people went much further than that. I can remember I was working for BT at the Easts of England Country Festival  I have a YouTube clip that can show you better that I can write and explain what I saw. Click Here I met Jed Ford he was really nice man, he give me and the other BT Engineer an access all area passes for the event. The reason I show the clip is to highlight the change in what people wear now days. The last three big events I went to the most dressing up I saw were people wearing hats, You the same people who really made an effort, a man and his partner in the full get up doing Partner Dances you might known who I mean they are always at these events. But the question is why has it changed is it the style of music, has pop music stopped the Country Western side of line dancing, and there for all the cowboy clothes seem inappropriate in the modern age. When I dress up and dance I got so hot with the hat, check shirt jeans I was melting.
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New Dance and some Recent Dance

Dance Sheet
This is a tricky dance I'm not sure if I like it the music is great so the dance will come
Some of the other dances we did last night were Amazing Faith| Calm and Collected | Sunny In Seattle | Boat To Liverpool | Eighteen lonely months | High Cotton | and many more besides.
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New Dance Old Dance

New Dance Old Dance?

I will talk about this weeks class in a minute, but first I would like to show our member tour web site. In this day and age it is important to have an online present in any club, group, or organization. We have done well in this area. I was looking for research matiral for our latest quiz and I typed in Rob Fowler, and our web site http://countryrootsrhyl.blogspot.co.uk/ came second in the page ranking see picture below. 

 

This is because we are active on the internet and this is why we have followers from all over the world and the more times we use our own web site the more we get noticed, and our twitter address  is @countryrootrhyl please if you have a Twitter account log on and follow us because the more followers we have the high we go up the rankings. I will thank you all in advance for you help in pushing your club higher into the  world of the internet.

New and Old Dances

We have done a lot of old dances lately once like Dangerous Curves    Dance Sheet  the song made by the Cherry Bombs which make a lot of comic songs.We also  did Remember When, Amazing Faith  Dance Sheet this are the older dances , We also did a new dance called Calm And  Collected    Dance Sheet  you  can looked at these dances and make your own mind up see.  YouTube videos below.                                    

   
Other Dances we did were Blueberry Chill , Came Out Like A Rose, Drunk At The Time, Dixie Road, Eighteen Lonely Months,  Mona Lisa, and many more. If you have any comments you can find us on face book Country Roots Line Dance Club. or go to countryrootslinedance@gmail.com .

Sorry There are no Classes Until Next Monday June 2

 

 

Sorry There are no Classes Until  Next Monday June 2

A Year Has Passed We Have Dances A Lots

A Year Has Passed We Have Dances A Lots

It has been a year since we started the blog and face book page ( same name ) and I will show you how I keep track of the dances we have done over the last year, they are some dances we learn before the blog started but we have had walk-through's at some point this year I was amazed and I keep the records, I think this is why it can be hard the retain the dances in your head or that you need to go to YouTube and just have a look at the dance again. I could copy and paste a long list into the blog but that would be long winded  so I have made 6 screen grab  pictures from A to Z there are areas which are blank that's because we haven't had a dance that starts with that letter.

As you can see they is a lot that we have done and each week or may be every two weeks we have one or two more to a always growing list. Other dances we did was Mona Lisa , and Boat To Liverpool see video below, and one we haven't done for a while Sunny In Seattle

Not A new Dance  but one I hadn't heard of.

The dance is Amazing Faith By Rob Fowler I honestly don't know what to make to the  dance but here is is.

   

How Do You Learn a Dance

 

How Do You Learn a Dance

How do you learn a dance it is interesting how different people learn a  new dance and how some people are just naturally good at teaching other people to do a dance, I do look at the dance script but I will follow the walk-through on YouTube. But even they are the dances that seem hard to do even with walk-though's on YouTube. But when you go to class and Margaret  ( our Instructor ) does her walks-though, to the same dance that you have been struggling with and Margaret's way is  much easier than the one on YouTube that is a great skill to have. At a personal level I have taught friends dances, and I have to say  it's not easy, so the likes of Margaret and Helen and all the other Instructors I for one take my hat off to you all.

New Dances This Week

The first dance The Boat To Liverpool this is the one that so many of us have had the problem with the heel cross, heel hook, heel flick , scuff, hitch cross, I like this dance and once we can do it  I think it will be fine.



Dance Script

The other dance this called Mona Lisa I like this dance but again the are some moves that you need to work at because to me I find it trick in the step kickball step kickball then heel and heel, I can do it but I have to work at it.

Dance Script



When you go to get the Dance Script be sure to get the right one I have marked the correct one see picture below.

When Are You A Dancer?

When Are You A  Dancer?

This question was mentioned this week what makes a dancer?

Someone said this week that your not a dancer unless you can dance to live bands as well as the song that are attached to a particular dance. by that they meant reconise the beats per minute in the song so you can pick a dance to do to the song when the band is playing live.

I personally not agree with this you can be a really good dancer, know all the dances, know what you can and can't dance to within the club or Social night out. if you don't or maybe can't get to hear live bands play it doesn't make you any less of a dancer. Music is music weather live or on disc, it's what you do when the music is playing that counts.

Are Some Dances Just Crazy?

Our club are doing a dance called Backwards this is the dance that the line dance troop did on Britain's Got Talent, on Copperknob  the dance is listed as the fastest dance in the world, there's not much to the dance it is just the speed of the dance,the members can do the dance but it is a struggle and to me dancing should be enjoyable not a battle to get all the steps in as fast as you can, the other thing people might not have thought of is you could get injured trying to do the steps.

Wednesday Afternoon Dance Class

On Wednesday we did a lot of the old dances we haven't done for sometime, and it's only when you do the dance you remember how much you liked the dance, this could be because the are so many dance coming out every week that we get a dance overload. Here are some of the dance we did.

We will start with a new dance we first did on Monday two week ago. And with the Bank Holiday I forgot to put it on the blog. It's calledCame Out Like A Rose .

And many more all the dance sheet can can be obtained from www.copperknob.co.uk
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