This will never get old. Making music, singing and dancing are some of the all time basic human activities for health in body, mind and soul AND RELATIONSHIPS! Playing, singing dancing just for the JOY of it, not for the profit of it. We are working on learning this as a family while quarantined for coronavirus!!! Let's get back to the basic of life and live for real, not virtually!!! Loving it!!!
I never imagined this video would have 50K hits! I just threw it together for a friend of mine who wanted to learn the basic clogging step for a role in a play. It is not unusual in the folk dancing world for dancers to call the same step by different names. Call the steps whatever you wanna call 'em. Just learn 'em and DANCE your little hearts out! :)
@@angelgirldebbiejo 283,741 views on 6/9/19 - another 120,00 views in this past year. The dancer was excited about getting 50,000 views over the course of 3 years. She's gone more than 5 times that now.
AGGGHHH. My whole LIFE just got WAY BETTER! I haVE wanted to learn just basic clogging for DECADES! And just thought it was a magic trick that I could never learn. They have lessons for EVERYTHING it seems near where I live, but NOT clogging. AND now... well, heck! I LOVE how you rotate around so we can really get the hang of it, BTW> THAT SUPER helped! Thank YOU SOOOO much. Heck, there's an Irish band playing downtown tonight: I MAY just head on down there!! Shuffle, step-rock-step. Beautiful! Did I say "Thank You"? I am very grateful.
I go to a festival every year in the fall where I always see elderly people doing this dance. I've been so mesmerized, and now I know how to do it, thank you for clear instructions!
Super cool! I decided I would start learning to clog this week for my cardio. I got on RU-vid this morning at a little after 6:30 am. This was the first video that came up. I followed it, & here it is 6:49 am, & I can shuffle rock step. Thank you so much!!
You can, if you listen close, hear the verbal instruction stepped out with her feet! It's like her feet are repeating what she says! She's a great instructor!
Really - Really great job. Thanks so much. I finally can learn to clog. And that is something I have admired in others for many years. Thanks jodayes for a great video!
We called it double step rock step instead of shuffle step rock step is the only difference between what I learned as a kid. This was the late seventies though, I'm so glad to see people are keeping this type of dance alive that's wonderful.
thank you so much for keeping this alive-- no matter how much I watch the old time videos I cant figure it out! and you've broken it down where I can see it! Thank you! I want to do this so badly!
I thank you for taking time to make this very nice video. I learned watching old country folks dance while I played in the band. (This was when I was in my teens.) Later I got some Dorsey safety toe patent leather dress shoes and donned them with "Continental Jingles" taps. Me and my partner came away with quite a few plaques, trophies and gift certificates... ( that was before gift cards came out). It was exhausting, because a "Barn Dance Clog" is usually done on an old, turn of the century, wooden skating rink and there's lots of power that goes into each step. The louder the better the score. (I was young back then and could handle it). Some of my best memories stem from the family orientated dance halls from playing there as well as dancing there. Thanks again for your video!
I see a lot of people have asked about shoes. I learned how to clog in 1982 and stopped in 1987. In those days we used patent leather shoes with hard soles. For men we simply used men's dress shoes. The women's shoes were very similar. To the bottom are installed a tap on the heel and another tap under the toe of your foot. In some regions the Taps are solid metal like tap shoes but in other regions the Taps have two pieces of metal held together loosely with a rivet in a sort of sandwich fashion. The two pieces of metal clack against each other so with each tap of the toe or heel... there are essentially two sounds heard simultaneously: one is of the metal touching the floor and the other sound is of the tap clacking against the other portion of the tap. It appears in this video the lady has single piece taps not the two piece tap like we used to use. I believe the names she uses for the steps and also the use of a single piece tap is more traditional to the original buck dance-inspired clogging of the Appalachian region.
Your instruction is excellent. You go through the steps at the right pace for beginners. Gum off your shoe is easy to remember. I need to remember forward first. I have watched other instructors and it seems impossible. I am at the point that I can do it...but only on one side over and over. I know I just need to change one little thing but it's tricky. Ha haaa...dancing is fun!!! Gordy
Jo-daye!!!! You are the best! This is great. I will likely hit you up for some fancy stuff soon. You should make more how-to videos, anyway, not just for me. You are really good at it! =) Thank you!
A big big thank you. We live so far away from anything. It's impossible to find instruction . My husband and I decided to learn to clog and found your video. Your a fantastic teacher!
This is SO GREAT! Some day I'm going to master this thanks to you! My husband is a hillbilllie, and I always loved watching Buddy Epson on the Beverly Hillbillies.
I grew up in the mountains of NC a long time ago. Back then folks would push the furniture to the wall and everybody would dance in the center. All the floors were wood, which helped with the percussion. Guess they weren't too worried about scarring them up. Y'all need to learn to dance this dance. It's lots of fun, as you can tell from the video. Here's a bit of info from Wiki. *Clogging is the official state dance of Kentucky and North Carolina and was the social dance in the Appalachian Mountains as early as the 18th century. *Antecedents In the United States, team clogging originated from square dance teams in Asheville, North Carolina's Mountain Dance and Folk Festival (1928), organised by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in the Appalachian region.[3] *American Clogging is associated with the predecessor to bluegrass-"old-time" music, which is based on English, and Scots-Irish fiddle tunes. Clogging developed from aspects of English, Scottish, German, and Cherokee step dances, as well as African rhythms and movement. It was from clogging that tap dance eventually evolved.
David Hoffman's video from 50 years ago shows all of the furniture against the wall. The camera shows a wall mirror rockin' as the floor is bounced by the dancers :)
When she's facing forward think about hands in shoes with long sleeves. Then think about the shining toes being toenail on a horse hoof. I know it's not a toenail. But you get it. It's hilarious when you watching it like that. But also educational. I saved it to watch latet and try it.
Nice instructional video easy to follow and understand. Would have been more interesting if we could have seen the whole body and face for inspiration and better understanding . Thank you for sharing.
when you do the shuffle step, are you tapping heel when you kick out and toe when you bring your foot back, or do you tap toe on the way out and on the way back? Hope that made sense!
I have this same question! I heard in another clog video that traditional clogging always leads with the heel, then the toe. It’s hard to see here, but I think she might be doing toe first. I don’t know...
The shuffle step she describes is actually more widely known as the double step. The double step with a rock step is also known as the "basic step" which is usually just called a "basic". Three double steps in a row followed by a rock step is used a lot in clogging. This is referred to as a "triple" and it consumes four beats of music. Anyway to answer your original question there is no heel tap so the double step portion of the "basic step" is actually two toe taps (both done with the ball of your foot, one tap on the way forward followed by another one almost immediately on the way back), and then a step of your entire foot. Another thing to know is that what she refers to as chugging is more widely known as "shuffling".
...studio in Warren Ohio. I still catch myself doing a "shuffle ball stomp" when I'm doing dishes in the kitchen. I was the youngest of four sisters in dance. We always played at home with our dance shoes and costumes. I was able to enjoy them longer since I was a hand me down Jane!