warm-up
Tap dancing must move your feet first, and your feet mainly use your ankles, so you should practice hooking your feet first, then turn your ankles inside out, shake your knees and relax your knees, and then do:
1, bend your knees and swing your arms (all feet on the ground)
2. One-arm swing exercise (others are the same as above)
3. Jump with your feet (use the forefoot to keep your heels from landing and your arms swing naturally)
4. Turn 90 degrees and clap your hands (turn first, then jump, then clap your hands)
Rhythm practice
What about the rhythm?
1, tap dancing must find the right rhythm when there is music, half beat or even quarter beat.
2. When there is no music, your feet are music and rhythm.
So we specially arranged the practice of music rhythm.
1. One beat practice: We know what music has one beat, two beats, three beats and four beats. In practice, we beat one with our feet, two with our hands, three with our feet and four with our hands.
2. Half racket practice: the first half racket, the second half racket means one, two, three, four.
3. Quarter-beat exercise: the first leg beat and the third hand beat.
Namely: one dadada, two dadada, three dadada, four dadada.
Or: one dada, two dada, one dada, one dada, four dada.
Listening to music and practicing like this often makes people feel that you are stepping on the second half of the music.
Now let's do another set of exercises like this:
One to two (one beat) one to one (half beat) one to one (half beat)
Direct practice
Most of the names behind us are names used in British textbooks. In fact, tap dancing requires the feeling of ankles and the sound of tapping the floor with the soles of your feet, but not anyone who wears tap shoes can jump out of tap dancing. It must be struck by the strength of the ankle. When you practice your ankle as flexibly as your wrist, your tap dancing will be done. So when practicing, raise your heels first, raise your toes and hook your feet.
When practicing, don't stretch your knees too straight, always bend and relax, and practice alternately with your feet. When practicing, the muscles on your feet should be relaxed and not too tight. We will use them in many places in tap dancing in the future.
In practice, only the ankle joint of the sole of the foot is used, that is, the right foot moves forward no more than one foot, and the left foot taps the ground seven times, and the eighth beat retracts the foot (stomps), then the right foot taps seven times, and the eighth beat retracts the foot.
If you want to tap dance well, you must practice straight tap dance first. This is a very important basic skill. You should practice the next day. You can practice anytime, anywhere, regardless of the venue.
Walking exercise
We say tap dancing is beautiful and sounds crisp, but we must learn it from the beginning. In the primary stage, we arranged it to let everyone know the sound of various parts of the foot hitting the ground and the changes of various music rhythms, so walking is a very important sport. We introduce two kinds here, one is toe-belly slapping and hitting (toe-belly is the sole of the foot; Toes are toes) first practice the in-situ toe-belly strokes, and then practice the moving toe-belly strokes. Can be forward and backward, left and right or cross. When you heel, your knees are still bent. Don't straighten out.
The second one is just the opposite of the first one. When doing heel strike, rub the ground with your heel, press your knees with your body strength when hitting your toes, and then make a sound (very crisp and heavy sound) from your knees to your toes.
When you walk, your legs are straight, and when you clap your hands, your legs are bent, that is, you walk straight and clap your hands.