How To Do A Time Step

This short clip features tiptop tap advice from a professional tap dancer. In less than five minutes, you'll be tapping away like there is no tomorrow. Enlarge

How To Do A Time Step

This short clip features tiptop tap advice from a professional tap dancer. In less than five minutes, you'll be tapping away like there is no tomorrow.

I'm going to teach you how to do a single time step. First, do shuffle with the right leg. Hop, change by springing onto the other leg, brush forwards, step forwards, and step back.

That's a single time step. Shuffle hop, spring, brush, step forward, step back. You then can repeat this on the other side.

Shuffle hop, spring, brush, step forwards and back. Now, do those together. Now do that slowly again, shuffle hop, spring, brush, forwards, back.

Shuffle hop, spring, brush, step forwards, and back. The timing, eight and one, two and three and, four and five, six and seven and. Then, I'm going to teach you the break.

You begin with a shuffle hop change. Shuffle step, shuffle step with the other leg, and a shuffle ball change, the break again. Start at the first part.

Shuffle hop spring, shuffle step, shuffle step, shuffle ball change. From the top, shuffle hop, spring brush, step, step. Shuffle hop, spring, brush, step, step, shuffle, hop, spring, shuffle, step.

Shuffle, step, shuffle, ball change. And that's a single time step. When learning a time step, there are set counts.

They go, eight and one, two and three and four and five, six and seven and eight and one, two and three and four and five, and six and seven. Eight and one, two and three and four and five, six and seven and eight and one, two and three and four and five, and six and seven. But there's also a little rhyme that you can use.

It's much easier. I will always remember, I will always remember, I will always remember how to do this silly step. I will always remember, I will always remember, I will always remember how to do this silly step.

And that's the time step. .