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Solo Jazz for Beginners
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(81 ratings)
457 students

Solo Jazz for Beginners

Take your first steps into the world of solo dancing to jazz music
Created byKris Blindert
Last updated 11/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Basic Rhythms: Step-Holds and Hold-Steps, Quicks, Triples
  • Classic Steps: Tackie Annies, Boogie Backs, Low-downs, Camel Walks, and more
  • Posture, Groove, Balance
  • Simple tools for improvising and for developing your own style

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Course content

3 sections • 47 lectures • 3h 10m total length

  • Introduction1:31

    Join Chris for an introduction to solo jazz for beginners, teaching swing movement fundamentals and the vernacular jazz repertoire, balancing structure with expressive freedom in a home edition class.

  • Warm-up4:13

    Watch and copy the warm-up moves to find the groove before details. Use the pennies from heaven song by Naomi and her handsome devils to guide your tempo.

  • Focus for the class: 2-Beat-Moves0:31

    Explore two-beat moves to establish groove in jazz, starting with a core move from the warm-up and introducing one new move, then add a second move and begin technical details.

  • New Move: Tackie Annie5:12
  • New Move: Box Step4:08
  • Quality if movement: Posture5:45
  • Quality of Movement: Transitions11:50
  • Transitions between Tackie Annie and Box Step1:54
  • New Moves: Boogie Forward and Fishtails1:52
  • Transitions between Boogie Forward and Fishtails3:25

    Learn transitions between boogie forward and fishtails, master four moves: box step, boogie front, fish tail, and Tacony, through guided practice and a short combo.

  • Combo sequence5:58
  • Final song3:19
  • Class 1 recap1:56

Requirements

  • You can take this course without any prior dance experience.
  • You might want some space around you ;)

Description

Jazz music has an incredible ability to make us want to move. Even after learning only a few simple jazz steps, you can tap into that feeling and flow with the music like a surfer catching a wave. This course is designed to do just that!

You don’t need any prior knowledge about jazz music, or any prior dance experience whatsoever; we’ll start from scratch and build up layers from there. In each class you’ll have a great balance of easy step-by-step instructions and practice time, plus some cool challenges thrown in. In only three sessions we’ll take you into the world of jazz, giving you everything you need to move and groove along to amazing swinging tunes!

You’ll learn some important jazz steps, as well as the fundamental techniques behind them. Vernacular jazz is a Black american art form, which emphasizes improvisation and creativity, and in this course you’ll even get a taste of the rich exploration you can do to create your own voice in the dance.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in swing music and curious about moving to it

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