Five Tap Riff in Tap Dancing

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Emily Larew, and we are now going to take a look at the Five Tap Riff. So, how many sounds are we going to be doing? Five. Good job. Here we go. So, we're going to just start with the same Three Tap Riff we learned previously. Okay? So, we have three taps-one, two, three. Alright? All you're going to do is take your right foot and push it heel, step. So, you're going to add-drop that ball of the foot. And how do we make it loud? By bending our knee. Okay? So here we go. Six, seven, we have brush, heel, heel, heel, step. Good. Your weight's on your right foot, so you can do the left one right away-brush, heel, heel, heel, step. Brush, heel, heel, heel, step, brush, heel, heel, heel, step. Awesome! So, let's bring this back a little bit. As you can tell, we can totally travel with these Five Tap Riffs. Keep your knees bent, weight in the balls of the feet, so we're nice-we're moving and grooving with our tap steps, instead of looking awkward and jerky. Five, six, seven, eight. And a one, and a two... And that is your Five Tap Riff."