Tonight we danced the following dances, including dancing Stand By Me twice:
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The following dance is one we will be concentrating on each week while we help it to bed in with practice:
Notes:
The stepsheet links above will take you through to Copperknob – most line dancers consider this site their ‘bible’ as it contains all of the published line dances danced out there.
Song titles marked with * show that we have danced to the original (or one of the tracks considered original) music set to the choreography.
What you can find on Copperknob:
- The dance stepsheet – these can take a bit of getting used to when it comes to reading them to understand the steps. Usually a top line of each section (often in bold text) will summarise the steps included in that section, followed by a breakdown of each individual step. If anyone would like me to go through any stepsheets with them, please catch me in a break.
- Details of the dance – by this I mean:
- The level of the dance – for most of our classes we will only be concentrating on anything from these levels:
- Absolute Beginner
- Beginner (including Easy Beginner & High Beginner)
- Improver – NOTE: this will be a long way off, however, I have included this as a small selection of the older Improver dances would now be considered Beginner or High Beginner level dances based on tags and/or restarts becoming more common, even in Absolute Beginner dances.
- How many walls the dance is – the number of different directions we start the dance from
- How many counts the dance is – how many steps for a complete wall of the dance
- The choreographer and when the dance was submitted to Copperknob
- Details to the suggested or original music track used for the dance, along with the artist it is by and which version (where there are multiple versions widely available).
- The level of the dance – for most of our classes we will only be concentrating on anything from these levels:
- A YouTube link to the music track – this is usually to the original track that the dance was choreographed to. Sometimes there will be multiple ‘original’ options specified in the sheet, so there may be more than one Music video link.
- A YouTube link(s) to a Demo video – dances that have received overwhelming responses and reactions to them will often have multiple demo videos accompanying them, mostly recorded by various line dancing classes and group, and sometimes even by other choreographers themselves. A demo video is simply the dance being performed/danced with no other explanation. Some may have the steps called out, but most are often just a demonstration of the dance. Where a demo video has been uploaded by the choreographer these are often the best videos to watch first as they know the steps inside out – they wrote them! However, as you find yourself watching more and more demo videos you will start to pick up on regular contributors and find the ones with a style that you like most. The above YouTube video for Glass of Wine was a demo video recorded by Richard Munden, who is actually the choreographer for the dance we do to the Gavin & Stacey version of Islands in the Stream.
- A YouTube link(s) to a Teach video – unlike the demo videos, any videos that state Teach on the description will also break down and give instruction on how to learn and dance the dance. I will caution that in rare cases a Demo video can get uploaded as a Teach video, but usually if you check the video all of the way through this is because some upload combined videos. I particularly like the format AB Coasters use where they will demo the dance for the first part of the video, then follow it with a breakdown of the steps.
Tips for getting the most out of Copperknob:
- Sign up for an account – it’s FREE. You can get so much more out of Copperknob when you are logged in.
- Create lists – lists can help you organize dances in the Copperknob site. Think of it like a bookmarks bar on your favourite internet browser – except it is nicely self-contained within Copperknob. Handy, right?
- Once you are logged in, click on “My Lists“.
- You will have a “Favourites” created by default, but if you want multiple lists (e.g. I set up “Learned”, “Learning”, and “Want to Learn” lists) you can create more by clicking on the “Create New List” button.
- If you create a new list it will add to your list of lists as “*New List*” – click on the cog settings icon and you can change the name of your list. You can even change the list colour if you want.
- Once you have created your list you can then start filling it. In each step sheet there is a star icon underneath the votes labelled as “Save” – click on this icon, or the word “Save”, and tick the box for the list you want to save the stepsheet into.
- You can save stepsheets in multiple lists.
- To access your list, click on “My Lists” at the top of the screen (or in the 3 horizontal lines/cheeseburger menu button on mobile views) and click on the list you want to open.
- Vote – choreographers put a lot of work into creating their dances for us to enjoy. If you like a dance that we are doing, please show it some love by adding your vote (out of 5 stars) to the Copperknob system and help their dance to remain in the line dancing charts for others to enjoy. You need to be logged in to be able to vote.
- Comment – if you really like a dance the choreographers love to hear this. There is a comment section at the bottom of each stepsheet screen (you may have to scroll past a lot of videos for very popular dances) where you can let the choreographer and others know you like it. Sometimes you will see questions asked in this section about specific steps in the dance, or suggestions for song swaps for the dance.
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