hi my name is Robert Royston I'm a
five-time world champion of country
dance working with artists like Taylor
Swift Carrie Underwood Brad Paisley I
really hope that you learn how to line
dance and experience what it's like to
move to America's music and that's
country
so basic pattern structure of line dance
what we're talking about with this is
how you would either create your own
line dance or if you're learning a line
dance and you're watching you're
watching some people do it and you want
to jump in there and try to do it with
them quickly you want to look for the
basic structure so you can jump in at
the beginning of the line dance and
understand where the restart point is
where the finish line dances so I'm
going to talk a little bit about
structure basic pattern structure of
line dance starts on a wall whatever
wall you're facing so everybody's facing
the same wall somewhere along the way
you're going to probably move right move
left move forward move back everything
else until you hit a new wall most line
dancers do a quarter of a turn and most
of them to the left so you do a quarter
of a turn to your left and then you'll
start your new wall so as you're
watching a line dance you have the
ability to watch it watch it watch it
when they face a new wall and do a step
you recognize that you've just seen a
minute ago you can probably take a good
guess that that's the new wall and the
dance is starting over I'm going to go
ahead and do this little pattern with
just basic eight counts so we knew just
eight counts we're gonna do four counts
to one side four counts the other side
and so on so I'm going to go to my right
and I'm going to go one two three four
now you might choose to go to your left
if you're creating your own line dance
but for the sake of what we're doing we
go right 1 2 3 4 now I'm going to go
back 5 6 7 8 let's do it this way think
right with a touch step so you're going
to go walk walk walk touch then go left
walk walk walk touch now you can choose
to go forward and back let's go ahead
and go back we're going to go back back
back touch so we've gone to the right
we've gone to the left
we've gone back at this point all either
go forward again I can go right or left
again all right can make a quarter of a
turn let's go ahead and go forward so
we're going to go forward forward
forward tap now from here let's take 8
counts to make a quarter of a turn to my
left 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 this would be our
new wall and we restart the pattern
structure again so we have
one two three touch four five six seven
touch eight back one two three touch
four five six seven touch eight eight
counts to do a quarter of a turn one two
three four five six seven eight and we
start the pattern again one two three
four five six seven eight back two three
four five six seven eight one two three
four five six seven eight so what you're
looking for in this kind of line dance
sequence is you're looking for where is
the restart point where's the dets
restart where does it happen again and
then you look for the structure okay so
they start here and they finish here now
as another example one of the other
pattern structures we use in line
dancing is you do one pattern and
instead of a quarter of a turn your new
wall is the back wall
that's called a two wall line dance
because you only ever face front or face
back same exact pattern structure we're
going to make this a two wall line dance
so we go to the right first one two
three four then to the left five six
seven eight back up one two three four
forward five six seven eight now take
those same eight counts of walking and
make a complete half turn one two three
four five six seven eight we're at our
new wall and we start again one two
three four five six seven eight back two
three four five six seven eight eight
counts of walking with a half turn one
two three four five six seven eight
we're back to our beginning wall so we
have a two wall line dance when you
watch people doing line dances you're
either going to see a four wall line
dance or a two wall line dance so I'm
either going to make a quarter turn at
each restart
yeah did all four walls or I'm going to
make a half-turn at each restart so we
have a two wall line dance and then
there are some line dances out there
that are one wall line dances so let's
do this together same structure when we
take those final eight counts let's make
one complete turn so we're going to go 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 back 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 around
2 3 4 5 6 and start over so that's a 1
wall line dance so those are some basic
pattern structures that you want to
think about when you're creating your
own line dance or watching a line dance
that's happening right in front of you
and you want to pick up and start to
learn look for the structure look for
the pattern where is it going and where
does it restart and then you'll know
when you can jump in when you're ready
to start with those people