How to Tap Dance for Advanced Beginners - A Cane Step

Step by step instruction for experienced Beginners. This step gets extra beats by tapping your cane as you dance. No cane? Just clap on the beat!
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Maybe you’ve always wanted to have a cane - here are some links to similar canes on Amazon:
This one like mine (but you get two?)
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When I checked, Amazon also had used canes available...
This one has a “crook” (Fred Astaire often used this kind)
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I purchased my cane at a local dance supply store, they are also often available to purchase from costume rental stores.
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Thanks again for watching my video! I hope that tap dancing brings as much joy into your life as it has to mine. Remember it’s never too late to start dancing! Music and movement are key to health both for your body and your brain. Keep learning, and most of all, Keep Kicking!
Karie-Lee
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[@kimzchaos]

I bet Sunset Shimmer will love to tap dance

[@barbaral.8729]

Love this video! My daughter (16y.o.) is a ballerina with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Crazy I know. When she was a little girl, a ballet teacher told her she could dance and she can. Ballet is much more fun than painful "range of motion" exercises! Due to this obsession with dancing (and some very supportive medical and physical therapy personnel), she pushes herself to the max, and finally at age 13 she began to walk without a mobility device. Just last year she performed her first ballet solo without a device. Now, her obsession is tap. Difficult to visualize, given her circumstances, but I thought a "cane dance" might be the solution. We're going to practice this step. Thank you for introducing it! Very interested in the board, too.

[@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657]

What an inspiring story! Your daughter must have the spirit of a warrior! I truly believe that the melding of music and movement can take us beyond where we could go with only one or the other. I’m so honored that she might find some value in this video. I do think it is a great idea for her to learn tap with a cane! I would love you to keep me posted on her progress.. ps the tap board is just a piece of plywood over my carpet, with a sheet of particle board veneer laid over the top. Thanks! Karie-Lee ❤️

[@bsutherland5337]

Wow! Love, love the dancing cane!

[@rottweilersonvideo5528]

Thank you! I’m a 60 year old ex dancer who wants to get back into it for fun. Except I’m using a cane as a barre! My back/spine has many issues.

[@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657]

Glad to hear you are still keeping active and putting the cane to good use! Hope you keep dancing 👍

[@GrammyTapDancing]

I need a new board I love the sound of it plus what’s under it awsomness

[@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657]

Hi Sharamay! It is just a 1/4 in piece of plywood under a sheet of particle board. I had to add the plywood after my heel went through the top layer! Very simple, but it does give a pretty good sound. Thanks for watching!!

[@GrammyTapDancing]

@@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657 the top is particle board ? Did you varnish it? Looks shiny? Tnk u

[@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657]

I didn’t varnish it, it came with that sheen. I’ve had this for so long I can’t remember what I originally bought it for - probably for prop building 😊. Pretty sure I got it at Home Depot, and chose it because it was the least expensive material I could find for my purposes. Next time I go in there I will try to hunt it down and let you know! Thanks Sharamay!

[@GrammyTapDancing]

@@stillkickingwithkarie-lee6657 awe so sweet tnk you I've used a piece of paneling for long time now it's warped. Maybe glue gym mats under. Have board 1/2" to heavy to move around plus hard on my sheets. I only have a small area to tape love your set up it's great with mirror's too. Tough living in small apt 👌

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