How to Do a Stamp Combo in Tap Dancing

Doing combos in tap dancing is a fun way to combine all of the individual tap steps you learned into interesting patterns and rhythms. Here you can experiment with sound, "push the beat" and build the basis for more and more complicated choreography. Start with a stamp combo in tap dancing.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Begin the stamp combo in tap dancing by standing with your feet together, shoulder width apart with your hands on your hips.

2. Step forward first with your right foot then your left, placing them with resounding stamps. Your feet should end up about a shoulder's width apart.

3. Lift the toe of your right foot, and do a back slap, and place your foot back where you started, when you do a stamp combo in tap dancing. Lift the toe of your left foot and do a slap back so that both feet are beside each other.

4. Try doing the combination a little faster, beginning with the resounding stamps, then adding more syncopation to the slap backs.

5. Add to additional steps to the stamp combination in tap dancing by stepping forward with your right and left feet. As you get more confident with the stamp combination, add an almost jump to the first stamp of your right foot, so the steps will sound like: STAMP, STAMP, slap-back, slap-back, step, step.