
Welcome to the first step! Remember that these fundamental steps serve as a warm-up for your leg muscles too.
The more you practise these fundamental steps, the easier and more enjoyable this whole course will be!
When filming I had the image of a horse galloping in my head!
Congratulations on getting this far. The course has taken you from the fundamental steps that go together to make up more impressive looking tap steps, to us doing lots of different steps. The two videos on each step (learning the step and then practising it through an exercise) structure, combined with your own practise, has brought you here. You can absolutely do this class. You can take this lesson (and all the others) and add to them now. You have the skills ability to make them longer, go slower and faster, doing more or less reps, and even create your own classes through adding/subtracting steps here and there. Enjoy this, and remember to never stop tapping!
This course has been completely designed with the learner in mind. It is for absolute beginners of all ages, as well as for people who have enjoyed tap before and will enjoy a refresher - a refresher with lots of added content.
Starting with specific warm-ups targeting the muscles we'll be using, you are then gradually introduced to tap steps in a series of videos. Each tap step has two videos: 'Learning' and 'Practise'. In the Learning videos, steps are taught with clear instruction, slow motion and different camera angles. In the Practise videos, we practise the step just learnt. In addition, there are periodic tap classes (the same classes that I have been giving to students for decades) to thoroughly review the steps learnt up to that point.
Steps are introduced and sequenced for you to tap with confidence without getting lost or doing things beyond your level.
Section 3 (after the introductions and warm-ups) teaches the fundamental steps of tap dancing. We can put these together in various ways to create just about any tap step.
Section 4 walks you through how to personalise your tap.
Section 5 puts the previous sections together and gets you tap dancing with confidence.
Whatever your motivation: to learn a new skill set, adopt a fun way to exercise, brush up on your existing tap, this course has got you covered.