Things You'll Need:
- Tap shoes
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Step 1
Standing with your weight distributed equally on both feet, lift your right foot, bending your leg at the knee. The sole of your right foot is now facing to the back.
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Step 2
Hop in place on your left foot.
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Step 3
Shuffle on your right foot. A shuffle is comprised of a forward and backward brush of the ball of the foot against the floor. The foot swings forward, the ball swipes the floor and then the foot swings back, and the ball swipes against the floor once again. The hop is done on the count of "1" in the treble hop and the shuffle is done on the count of "and a." You might find it advantageous to shuffle slightly diagonally and to the right rather than shuffling straight ahead. If you are doing the trebles on your left foot, shuffle diagonally and to the left, while hopping on the right foot.
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Step 4
Do the treble over and over. Hop and shuffle, hop and shuffle. Your left leg, which is your support leg, will get quite a workout because you are hopping on it as well as balancing on it. Your right foot is your working foot.
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Step 5
Remember that a shuffle step can be done to the count of "and a 1," which is considered a quick treble. There is no step involved in the treble hop, but if you were doing a shuffle step, the shuffle would be done on "and a" with the emphasis on the back brush of the shuffle and the step would occur on the "1" count. When you hear or read the dance notation/count "1 and a," "2 and a" or "and a 1," that represents an eighth note triplet count and the dancer is making three taps/sounds per beat. In the quick treble, the hop is done on the "1" count and the quick shuffle is done on the "and a" count.
