Starting From Scratch

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.

        

Cowboy Charleston | How Long | Waltz Mexican Wind | Cowboy Strut | Western Barn Dance | Baby Kisses | Piano Man | Ribbon Of Highway

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.

   

 Eighteen Lonely Months | Hard Work | Mile Shy Of Paradise |  Morning Sun And Memories | Rock & Roll King |









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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.

 

Well It's Christmas Again.

Well It's Christmas Again.

Well as I say that time of the year is here again and it's time to look back at all the dances we have done this year. On Monday night Margaret Gough did a revision night going back to the start of the year.

 

January 2014

Joyride | wingman |Dixie Road

 February

Lover’s Hideaway Alison Biggs| End of the rainbow| Baby Kisses | Fall in Love |
one shot| Blue Blue day | Bread on the table |Joyride | That’s where I’ll Be | silver Lining |
Blueberry Chill | A Little Bit Gypsy |

March

Eighteen lonely months  | North of Heaven | Love is a Live  Gaye Teather | Drunk at the time  Margaret Gough | Loving You In Mexico | Most Of You  Ria Vos |

April
Came out Like A rose | Come As You Are | Waikiki | Carters Rock | High Cotton |

May
( Reviewed  Amazing Faith) | Mona Lisa | ( Reviewed Sunny in Seattle ) | Boat to Liverpool | Backward ( from Britain has Talent really quick ) | Anything goes | Forget all your yesterdays | (reviewed Suds in a bucket) |
June ( Beginners) One step forward two steps back | Elvira | Cowboy Twist | Ribbon of highway |
Take me away | (Reviewed Holding back the Ocean) | This is me | No Man’s Land | When | Ball and Chain |

July

Mile Shy of Paradise | No hony tonk | Slat & Lime | Together forever |Piano Man | Gonna B Good | ( Reviewed Dangerous Curves) |

August
Makita | Waltz Till you Love Me |

September

Sea Cruise | Fading Lights | Crazy Lady |MR Mom | What become of the brokenhearted |

October
Down by the river | They call me the Breeze | Places I’ve Never Been| Shadowlands |

November
Morning Sun and Memories | Thats just Me | Champagne | Young Blood |Woman Trouble |

December is the same as November
there's too many to put links to but which was your favourite dance of this year mine was Come As You Are. I loved the Tempo  and the way the flowed. Let me know your  dance of 2014? 

All Classes have now stopped for the year But we open January 5th Starting with the Beginners at 6 PM.
Have a happy Christmas  and New Year

Quite Time Of Year

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.

   

     
| Black Coffee | Cowgirl Twist | Cowboy Charleston | Invitation Stroll |

 
Lamtarra Rumba | Piano Man | Ribbon Of Highway | Stroll Along Cha Cha |

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.

    
| Come As You Are| High Cotton | Joyride | Mile Shy of Paradise |

  
| Place I've Been | That's Just Me | They Call Me The Breeze |


| Morning Sun And Memories | Champagne |

Line Dancing Is Not The Easiest thing To Do?

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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It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

It's Important To Choose The Right Dances

I have been looking at the top  line dances doing the rounds this  year. Because it is important to choose the dances that are being played at social nights, they is nothing worse than going to an event and finding out you don't know the dances that are being played on the dances floor. I have made a list of some of the dances we done this year and  looking over the different chart from pop to country the dances we do are in the charts.

Down To The River  |Dixie Road  |Young Blood   

A little bit Gypsy | Ball And Chain  | Boat to Liverpool 

Bread On The Table  | Boys Of Summer  |Blueberry Chill   |Blue Blue Day    

Came Out Like A Rose |Come As you are  | Champagne  | Crazy Lady      

FlyHigh |High Cotton | Joyride | Mile Shy of Paradise

Mona Lisa  |My First Love  | No Honky Tonk |Oh Fiona       

One Shot | Piano Man  | Push For The Stride |Where The corn Don't Grow |

Places I've Been  |This is Me  | That's where I'll be  |Thats just me       

They Call Me The Breez  |Sea Cruise  | Shadowlands  |Salt and Lime        

Shoebox | Same Thing Happened to me  | Silver Linings     

Woman Trouble  |Waltz Till I Love You  |A Different kind a man 

All the dance that are in heavy type are in one chart or another, wheather pop or Country this has been proven out when the members go away to meeting all over the country, the dances they know are the main dances on the dance floor. So Margaret Gough must be doing something right.

Saying Good Bye To An Old  Friend

On Wednesday 12th of November we say our farewells to Vera Williams who pass away last week. Her kin asked us if we could hold the wake at the club and do some line dancing in her memory, so that what we did, and there was fun and laughter just what Vera would wanted.

 

Beginners Class

 The beginners are starting to learn the dances that they have done over the last few weeks but to different music  this will help them to understand  that a dance is to BPM tempo and not fix to just one song. the dance Black Coffee was done to a slow  Eric Burdon The Animals song it was a slow rock song that when really well. We also did Sea Cruise and for the first time Shadowland This put them out of their comfort zone but that's dancing.
  

The Advance Class

 One of the new dances we are doing is Champagne it's not the easiest dance I've every done but I think the members are now getting to grip with the dance, see links to all dances below. the other new dance is  |That's just me | easier than champagne which helps. another dance which is making a come back in our club is Salt & Lime at first people did like it but it's dance in all the events where ever the members go. the other dances we have done recently are  |They Call Me The Breeze|  Crazy Lady |Mile Shy of Paradise | Push For The Stride | Where The corn Don't Grow |Woman Trouble .See link for dance sheets

    

Country Roots Has new Members

Country Roots Facebook page  has to  new members and they are both Choreographers they are Matt Vasquez we do a dance called  |Waltz Till I Love You | and the other member is Roz chaplin we do her dance | Places I've Been | and they are most welcome.