[upbeat music] - Hey y'all, my name's Aaron, and I'm here to get you moving.

Today, we're gonna do a little tap dance.

So first, we need to warm up our bodies.

So, make sure you've got plenty of room around you.

Yeah?

All right, here we go.

So first, reach down and touch your toes.

Maybe even bend your knees and straighten your legs.

Let's reach up towards the sky.

You can go up on your tippy toes.

Reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, and reach down back towards your toes.

Give your knees one more bend.

Bend them down and straighten them up.

And one more, reach towards the ceiling.

Reach, reach, reach as high as you can.

Good, put your feet down the ground nice and flat and shake out those arms.

Good, good, good, good.

Shake out your legs, shake out your legs.

Shake out the other leg, shake out the other leg.

And good, hands on your hips.

Let's bounce, spinning your knees both at the same time.

Good, now we're gonna pretend like we have a hula hoop on our hips, and we're gonna take our hips around the room.

Try it again.

Hips are around.

Keep going, just like you've got a hula hoop.

All right, now we're gonna pretend like we have a hula hoop on our knees, and we're gonna hula hoop with our knees.

That's pretty silly, right?

Keep it going, keep it going.

You're getting nice and warm.

Good, everybody.

Now, one foot, stick it out and just shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.

And other foot, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.

One more time.

Other foot, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.

And other foot, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

All right, you should be ready and warmed up and ready to tap.

Let's go.

Okay, first, let's have a seat on the floor.

So have a seat, put your feet together and wrap your arms around your knees.

Perfect.

Now, we're gonna make believe that our feet are light switches.

How do we do that?

Well, we take both of our feet up.

Like we just turned the light switch on, and then we put them both down like we turned it off.

Try some with me.

Turn the light on.

Turn the light off.

Let's do it again.

Turn the light on.

Turn the light off.

One more time.

We turn the light on, and we turn the light off.

Now, I bet that we can do this one foot at a time.

What do you say?

All right, pick any foot you want and we're gonna try to turn the light switch on and off.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Turn the light on, and turn the light off.

Again, turn the light on, and turn the light off.

One more time.

Turn the light on, and turn the light off.

Good, let's try the other foot.

Here we go.

Turn the light on.

Turn the light off.

Turn the light on.

Turn the light off.

Last time, turn the light on.

And turn the light off.

Good, now can you count to eight with me as we turn the light on and off?

It'll look like this.

One, two, three, yeah?

Okay, here we go.

Counting to eight on one foot, and then we'll count to eight on the other foot.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

We have, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Other foot.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Good job!

Okay, let's stand up.

All right, Tappers.

Let's talk about form when we tap dance.

Now, we wanna put our hands on our hips, just like that.

Good, and you wanna make sure your feet are directly in line with your shoulders.

They don't wanna be too wide and they don't wanna be too tight together.

They wanna be just right.

So find that good position there.

Now we also wanna make sure our knees aren't locked and really straight.

They always wanna have a little bit of a bend to them.

So find that bend.

Bend your knees, bend your knees, just like the warmup.

Good, all right.

Now, once we find that good tapping position, we wanna work on our light switch feet.

Now in tap, the correct term is a toe drop, but it's the same thing as your light switch.

All right, so if you wanna practice your light switch or your toe drop, you just pick up your toes, and you drop 'em down.

Do that a couple times.

Yeah, picking up those toes and just dropping them down.

Good, now try the other foot.

Picking it up and dropping it down.

Feel pretty good?

Doesn't it feel just like the light switches we were doing on the ground?

Awesome!

Let's do some together.

Let's do three on each foot.

Here we go.

Light switch goes on and off.

Toes up and down.

Your toe drops.

Good!

Let's try the other foot.

We have toes up and down, light goes on and off, and toe drops.

Good, now can we remember when we counted to eight in the warmup?

Yeah?

Well, we're gonna count to eight and do eight toe drops on each foot.

Can you do that with me?

Okay, let's try it.

We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Good, let's try it on the other foot.

We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Good job!

Round of applause for you, Tappers.

Awesome!

All right, now let's try something a little different.

What if we did four toe drops on each foot?

Do you wanna try that with me?

Here we go.

Pick any foot you like.

We have one, two, three, four.

And one, two, three, four.

Great job, another round of applause, awesome!

Now, what if we put the eight toe drops and the four toe drops together?

What would that look like?

Well, we would do eight on one foot, eight on another foot, four on one foot, and four on another foot.

You wanna try it?

Okay, here we go.

We have a five, six, seven, eight.

We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Other foot.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Four, one, two, three, four.

And one, two, three, four.

Great work, Tappers, good!

Okay, now the last part of it.

What if we did two toe drops on one side and two toe drops on the other side?

Let's try it.

We have a five, six, seven, eight.

A one, two, and a one, two.

All right, now to finish it out.

We're gonna do four singles, alternating your feet.

So it looks like this.

A one, two, three, four.

Or one, one, one, one.

How about that?

Can we add that on from the eight?

So it goes, eight, eight, four, four, two, two, one, one, one, one.

That's the whole combination.

Are you ready to try it?

Okay, let's do it.

Here we go.

A five, six, seven, eight.

And a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Other foot, one, two, three, four.

And a one, two, three, four.

Two, one, two, one, two.

Singles, one, one, one, one.

Great work, Tappers, awesome!

[claps] So, so good.

Now, we could try it a little bit faster.

Does that sound fun?

Okay, let's do it.

I know you can do it.

This will be great.

Are you ready?

Hands on your hips.

Are your knees bent?

Feet right underneath your shoulders?

Here we go.

A five, six, seven, eight.

And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Four, one, two, three, four.

And one, two, three, four.

Two, one, two, one, two.

Singles, one, one, one, one.

[claps] Great job, Tappers!

Thank you so much for tapping with me today.

You are awesome.

All right, thanks for moving with me.