There are still many ways to teach yourself. Collect some related materials, such as self-study CDs and books, which are good reference materials for self-study. But self-study also has many shortcomings, such as slow learning progress, irregular movements, less fun and so on. On the contrary, if there is a professional teacher to guide the dance movements, it will be more standard and interesting to dance, and you can learn from each other and find your own shortcomings.

If you want to learn Chinese characters, I have some information about dance steps here for your reference.

Requirements for tap dancing:

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

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.

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

Tap dancing is actually the sound of tapping the floor with the sole of your foot, but you can't tap dancing just by wearing tap shoes. You have to slap with the strength of your ankle. When you practice your ankle as flexibly as your wrist, your tap dancing will be done. So when you practice, first lift your heels, stand on tiptoe, hook your feet, pat the ground with the sole of your foot, lift it immediately after shooting, and so on.

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

Tap dancing is beautiful and sounds crisp, but you 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. Knees are still bent when making heels. 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.

Types of tap dancing:

American tap dance American tap dance, in the great ethnic integration of the American continent, combines Irish clogs dance with the traditional music of African nations and the primitive dance at the time of sacrifice, and develops and forms. In the form of freedom and relaxation, we pursue the complex expression of rhythm. American tap dance, as the promotion of African national art in the New World, inherited the original freedom of black nature, and "tap dance is not a map" was carried forward as the true meaning of American tap dance. Bill robinson bill robinson played a great role in the development of tap dance. 1989 May 25th is his birthday, and the date of the International Tap Dance Festival is set on this day. Great commemorative significance is self-evident.

In the era of Hollywood musicals and movies, American tap dance, as the most fascinating dance part on the big screen, was familiar and loved by people all over the world, which made American tap dance develop to a peak. From the lovely little Shirley to two famous Hollywood dancers, Fred Astaire and gene kelly, their dance performances in movies have attracted hundreds of millions of audiences. Famous films include gene kelly's Singing in the Rain and An American in Paris. Fred Astaire's royal wedding and band carriage; Captain January in Shirley Temple, small rebellion and so on. After the musical era passed, American tap dancing also entered a low tide.

Until 1980s, gregory hines, the king of rhythm tap dance, appeared, showing a new American tap dance style on the big screen and realizing the revival of American tap dance. His success has also enabled those black tap dancers who were suppressed in movies because of racial problems in the past to finally show their superb tap dancing skills to the world. Famous films include Tap Dance and Biography of bill robinson. After that, Savion Glover, the youngest tap dancer, took rhythmic tap dancing to a new height. The Australian tap dance troupe has also opened up a new world for American tap dance.

Jazz tap dance is also based on the complex and changeable rhythm of feet, but it emphasizes the cooperation and performance with jazz music, which is also an important force for the development of tap dance in this era. Its representative figure is Brenda Bufalino, the greatest female tap dancer.

Irish tap dance Irish tap dance, the real name should be "Irish dance-hard shoe dance", Irish tap dance is first of all a traditional art form of the Irish nation. American tap dance is called tap dance.

Irish dancers have no upper body movements when dancing Irish dance, their hands naturally droop and stick to their hips, and their feet in the lower body always keep a cross posture (45 degrees). Irish tap dancing is different from soft shoes and hard shoes. In soft-shoe dance, boys and girls dance differently, because the shoes of soft-shoe dancers are different. Girls are a bit like ballet shoes, and they don't make a sound, while boys' heels are hard and can make a sound.

Irish tap dance, as a traditional Irish folk art, really gained recognition and attention from the performance of riverdance. Those dancers who love this art have integrated more advanced tap dancing concepts into their national traditions, thus completing the sublimation of Irish tap dancing. In the Irish dance drama you see now, we can see that the dancer's upper body will move a little, which is improved by the dancer. In traditional Irish dance, only the lower body moves. Irish tap dancer Michael Fletcher is the most famous Irish dancer. Riverdance, Dance of Kings and Dance of Flames are all famous Irish tap dance dramas, which are extremely wonderful!

British tap dance British tap dance emphasizes the graceful body movements of ballet, with more rotation and sliding steps. In the dance steps. Dancers often bring aristocratic atmosphere to people in their performances. In addition, the syncopation of British tap dance changes little in rhythm, but it repeats more syllables than it is taught. At the same time, English tap also provides a channel for many learners to obtain licenses. You can join the Royal Dance Association -ISTD (Royal Dance Teachers' Association), become a member, and take the annual promotion exam to obtain an internationally recognized license.

The source of tap dance:

Tap dance (English: tap dance) means tap dance and is a modern dance style. Formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to the United States and gradually merged to form a new dance form. This kind of dance is open and free, without many formal restrictions. Dancers don't pay attention to body dancing, but pay attention to the complex technique of hitting with the rhythm of toes and heels. Performers wear special tap shoes, rubbing and patting their feet on the floor, making all kinds of tap dancing sounds, and the dancers' beautiful dances form a charm full of humor, humor and expressiveness.

After years of development, tap dancing has absorbed elements such as jazz rhythm and improvisation. It is also a very interesting sport, more entertaining, more open and challenging, giving people the feeling of lightness, liveliness, freedom and rhythm.

In the development of tap dancing, there are several key figures-willaim henley Ryan is a great rhythmic dancer. He added African steps to Irish jig dance, emphasizing rhythm and percussion over melody. Later, three tap dancers laid the foundation of tap dancing. They were King Rastus Brown, bill robinson and John Paopao. Brown started a mature tap dance step, and his dance step is characterized by flat feet. On this basis, Robinson developed his own dance steps and highlighted the toe technique. Bubbles, on the other hand, created a dance step called CRAMPROLL, which is characterized by using both toes and heels.

Tap dancing is a kind of listening dance style. There is even a saying that great tap dancers are musicians. In the early tap dance competition, the judges even sat under the wooden stage, not looking at the dancers at all, but listening to their priorities in tapping rhythm. For tap dancing, the most important thing is whether the rhythm is clear. A good tap dancer can make it clear no matter how fast the rhythm is, how complicated the steps are and how light the voice is.

After nearly a hundred years of development, tap dance has formed different styles, and the two main branches are Irish tap dance and American tap dance. The oldest tap dance originated in America and is called hoof dance. Hoof itself means tap dancing, so tap dancers at that time were also called hooves, and the word hooves also had the meaning of black people, which indicated that tap dancers at that time were mostly black people, and also explained the origin of tap dancing and black dance.

The Origin of Tap Dance Tap dance originated from Broadway in the United States and is a folk dance. The English name of TAP DANCE is "tap dance", which means tapping and slapping. It was formally formed in the United States in the 1920s. Before this, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to this immigrant continent, and these folk dances gradually merged to form a new dance form-tap dance.

In the development of tap dancing, there are several key figures-willaim henley Ryan is a great rhythmic dancer. He added African steps to Irish jig dance, emphasizing rhythm and percussion over melody. Later, three tap dancers laid the foundation of tap dancing. They were King Rastus Brown, bill robinson and John Paopao. Brown started a mature tap dance step, and his dance step is characterized by flat feet. On this basis, Robinson developed his own dance steps and highlighted the toe technique. Bubbles, on the other hand, created a dance step called CRAMPROLL, which is characterized by using both toes and heels.

Tap dancing is a kind of listening dance style. There is even a saying that great tap dancers are musicians. In the early tap dance competition, the judges even sat under the wooden stage, not looking at the dancers at all, but listening to their priorities in tapping rhythm. For tap dancing, the most important thing is whether the rhythm is clear. A good tap dancer can make it clear no matter how fast the rhythm is, how complicated the steps are and how light the voice is.

After nearly a hundred years of development, tap dance has formed different styles, and the two main branches are Irish tap dance and American tap dance. The oldest tap dance originated in America and is called hoof dance. Hoof itself means tap dancing, so tap dancers at that time were also called hooves, and the word hooves also had the meaning of black people, which indicated that tap dancers at that time were mostly black people, and also explained the origin of tap dancing and black dance.

Tap dance originated from the lower class in the United States, mainly combining Irish folk dance and African black dance. The form of this genre is relatively open and free, without too many stylized restrictions. Dancers don't pay attention to body dancing, but show off the complex skills of rhythmic beating under their feet. They often gather in the street to compete with each other. Its overall dance style is relatively simple and loose. Later, in the long-term development, this school was constantly influenced by many factors. For example, the influence of cowboys in the western United States, such as the influence of traditional black drums, may be the most important influence of jazz. Tap dance absorbs elements such as jazz rhythm and improvisation, which is more entertaining, open and challenging. In this way, it gradually formed a very rich dance form and became a tap dance school with a strong "black flavor" representing the United States.