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EntertainmentHow to Line Dance for Beginners

How to Do the “Good Time” Line Dance

Transcript

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 music. So one of the most popular line dances in the last five or six years has been good times done to Alan Jackson song, “Good Times”. So let’s break this dance down for you. Starts with walking forward with your right foot, little touch steps. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Then we’re gonna do little side points. One, two, three, four, with a turn, five, six, seven, touch eight. Then do the same thing. One, two, three, four, turn the other way, five, six, seven, eight. Now we’re gonna do hitches right, with the lifting of the leg, right, little tiny hops you might say but kind of opening the leg up and going behind. One, two, three, four, five, six, then we’re gonna do a little cross, seven, with a quarter of a turn, eight. So we’re gonna do a little cross hop to a quarter turn hop seven, eight. Starting with your right foot, cha, cha forward with a break step, cha, cha back a break step. Then we’re gonna do little side step boogies. Side step with a boogie, close. Side step with a boogie, close, and the dance starts over, forty-eight count dance. So try it one more time, by the way it’s a four wall dance. So we’re gonna go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five and six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five and six, and do it again. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five and six, seven, eight. Wiggle, wiggle, close, wiggle, wiggle, close, and the dance starts over. So we’re gonna go ahead and try this to music. Obviously we’re not gonna be doing it to Alan Jackson’s “Good Times”. We’d like to be able to do it a little bit slower for you to be able to practice this at home, here we go. Five, six, five six, seven, go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Cha cha cha, and back, side, close, boogie, and again. Touch, touch, touch, touch, side, side, and turn, side, side, and turn. And pitch, pitch, pitch, cross and cha, cha, cha, back it goes. Side, side, and again, touch, touch, touch, touch, point, point, and turn, point, point, and turn. And hitch, hitch, hitch, and cross and cha, cha, cha, back it goes, boogie, and close, and boogie, and close, and it starts over. There you have good times.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Choreograph a Line Dance

How to Do a Basic Turn in Closed Position for Line Dancing

What Is Syncopation in Line Dancing?

How to Do Laces in Country Couples Line Dancing

How to Do a Shuffle Step & Polka Step for Line Dancing

How to Do Triple Steps in Line Dancing

What Does Tag, Restart & Out of Phrase Mean in Line Dancing?

How to Do Hip Movements in Line Dancing

How to Do Rodeo Kicks & Figure 4s for Line Dancing

How to Do Solid Steps, Camel Walks & Slides in Line Dancing

Shorty George, Boogie Walks & Scissor Steps in Line Dancing

How to Line Dance to Cotton Eye Joe

How to Do the CC Shuffle Line Dance

How to Do the “Good Time” Line Dance

How to Do the Sleazy Slide Line Dance

How to Do the Wobble Line Dance

How to Do the Cupid Shuffle Line Dance

How to Do the Cowboy Boogie Line Dance

How to Do the Tush Push Line Dance

How to Do the 2-Step Line Dance

How to Do a Basic Ladies Outside Turn in Line Dancing

How to Line Dance with Robert Royston

What Is Line Dancing?

What Is Basic Pattern Structure in Line Dancing?

How to Find the Beat in Line Dancing

How to Use Step Sheets to Learn Line Dancing

Where Can You Line Dance?

What’s the Line Dancing Lifestyle?

Line Dancing vs. Square Dancing

How to Do Leg Lifts in Line Dancing

How to Do Basic Line Dancing Heel Movements

Hop vs. Jump in Line Dancing

How to Do a Vine Action in Line Dancing

How to Do Ball Change Actions in Line Dancing

How to Do Turns in Line Dancing

How to Do Touch Steps in Line Dancing

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