My wife and I learned to two-step through your videos about two years ago and have been regulars at Cowboys Red River in Dallas ever since. Thank you! As to how to explain what type of dance goes with what song rhythm…that’s really tough to encapsulate. Part of it is rooted in pure experience of dancing (also in playing music myself) and your ear and sense of rhythm learning to “tune in” to the rhythm of a song. I always mentally “overlay” the QQSS pattern to a song when it starts to make sure it “fits”. If not, I then switch mentally to the three-step polka, and if that doesn’t fit, then I try to determine if it’s a swing song (mostly those are faster beat songs). Over time, you just sorta “know it when you hear it”.

as a an American smooth ballroom instructor retired with my wife, ( we instruct as a couple also) and a country music and blues fan really enjoyed your videos got out on the floor and put it together so weI no longer dance a fast fox (slow slow quick quick) with two steppers instead we are joining them.

You are awesome. I love how you explain the technique and rhythm of the dances. You have a great knowledge of the lead and follow in your teaching. I have learned a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Both of you are so good in explaining the steps and such a great couple. Thanks for adding these on youtube. Both my wife and I love to watch you teach and your style of dancing.

Found yalls channel yesterday and i cant stop watching. I love yall!

Amazing tutorial. Which all the southern Texan folks knew the real two step. Thank for the tips

I have been taking two step lessons for about a year, I just recently found ya'll and I really enjoy the way you teach and break it down. Thanks You.

So informative!! Added to what I've learned as a beginner, this makes me a much better leader for my wife!!

Love the way you guys teach! It's the logic and the art combined. I see so many dancers with poor musicality. Would love to see you guys visit Chicagoland!!

Brilliant. Thank you so much for creating and sharing these videos.

I really like the explanations of more intermediate concepts. Most of what you're explaining I am doing, but that doesn't mean I've been consciously aware of why I'm doing it. Now that you've pointed it out, it helps me make those movements and timings more crisp because I have a target and an deeper understanding. Keep up the good work!

I love the way you break down the rhythm and interpretation of the dance steps. So understandable. I recognize a two step by the beat of the song. It’s like a 4/4 time that I can fit 6 beats into.

Was asked to go out dancing. I know nothing! So I looked it up on KZfaq. Found y'all. You're fantastic. Still haven't gone but I'm slowly learning concepts and will build my confidence and get up the courage to go. The guy knows how so hopefully he can teach me. Just hope his leading skills are decent. Thanks for all you do and for doing it so well!

I really like your explanation of concepts. The idea of the 2 Step rhythm being more than just. QQSS is new and very intersting to me. Thanks

i SO appreciate the technical breakdown here! this is totally how my mind works and learns best. i just learned to two-step yesterday (after several months of ECS) and people kept calling it a “4/4 dance” and i was so confused because the steps themselves are definitely 6/8. Also: I so loved that you broke down that we do possibly infinite quicks until the two slows! This has had me so confused for so long with partner dancing - how to maintain my “assumed pattern” (which i thought my feet were supposed to keep doing no matter what!!) while doing all the fancy turns. Somehow no one ever explained that to me before. It just clicked. Thanks so much!!!

Love your channel! I'm new to dancing and you guys are a great resource.

Great video! Learning a lot by watching all your videos 👍

Excellent teacher and explained the steps so clearly.

One thing we'd like is after you teach something new, show us how it looks and feels to music! Thanks!

Awesome! Such detail.

Excellent video clears up so much for me Thankyou very much! 🤙🏼👌🏻

I love watching yall! BTW your shirt is super cute!

Love how you teach! this was really interesting! Thank you!

Loved videos!

Awesome video!

For me I listen and picture it in my mind, some songs you can put more sway into it... love the way you beat it down !show it from different angles, helped me,to help others enjoy dancing.... plus the ladies love a guy who can dance...

Very clear and easy to follow instructions. Thank you.

Y’all are great, I live in the woodlands! Hopefully these videos can help but I may have to drop by and have you beautiful people teach me some things!

Really fun to see where we’ll be going as intermediates. Thank you.

Excellent, I never understood the purpose of quick quick slow slow. I can adapt this to other styles. Ya rock!

Thanks so much for training!.

I have taught Lindy and ECS for many years...now somewhat retired from that. I primarily dance argentine tango now but have started learning country line dances and two step. I want to say your instruction is excellent. I love the way you break it down. While I am musically inclined and can dance well with the music I am struggling with how to count the beats. Are you counting 1/2 on the quick quicks and 3/4, 5/6 on the two slows?

1st timer, just learning , been square danceing, 2 years, ask to go to do Texas two step. I hope this helps. thanks

Love the video!

Thank you for your time I in 🥰 it.

Very polished. I will check out additional videos. I think you would look even better in a cowboy hats.

Thank You ~ I love the two-steppin tips : )

Really helpful- thank you so much!

Great video!

Thanks for the great tips, I always wondered why dancers in El Paso were dancing 2-step two to the left and one to the right, I have always danced it as you teach it. QQSS. I sure enjoy your videos.

Leaving and following techniques would be a big help!

Thanks guys

Great job teaching it

Anthony and Rose thank you for the videos. My wife and I are in our 70s and enjoy two stepping and add some of you tips. We can’t do it all but what we do we do well. Thank You both.

Been here in Houston for a little while now wish I had seen about this channel earlier but hey it’s never too late. I need a couple of these lessons. 😂🙏🏽

I love your videos!!!! I live in Michigan! I love to dance! And I need to find a place to go two-steppin!!! I do not have a partner though!

Galleria and Woodlands!! Nice neighborhoods. And you two classy dancers fit in. If you ever want to go slumming come over to Austin, maybe the Spoke.

love all your dance videos, but my boyfriend is only dancing WCS, I wish he would agree to learn 2 step😞. You are bringing on so much of it. So here is my question: You are having 2-stepping Tuesday😊👌 why not West Cool Wednesday? 💔😎🤔

good tips...

Great tips and if only this could be taught at all dance halls.

Nice job

Interesting.

An absolute rookie dancer- Looking forward to the video on choosing the right dance for the music

To the question of how do you know if a song is a 2-Step, the short answer is: does it feel like it works for you? My personal thought process is a little long but decides between waltz, 2-step, polka, West Coast or Nightclub 2-Step. First, I check if the song is in 3/4 and if so, it is automatically a waltz. If not, then I check the feel of the song. If it feels more relaxed and like something you could sway in place to then I would lean more either Nightclub (i.e. Speechless by Dan + Shay) or West Coast (i.e. Pontoon by Little Big Town) and check tempo for reasonability. If it has a little more of a pep to it and makes me want to get up and cover ground then I look into 2-Step (i.e. Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson) or polka (i.e. Nothin' to Lose by Josh Gracin). In checking the tempo, I always check 2-Step in normal time to see if it works. If the song is too slow for that, I then check polka in normal time to see if that works. If the song is still too fast, I finally check for a half-time 2-Step. At this point it is really unlikely to find a song that has a tempo this slow and still enough energy to make me want to go for a traveling dance.

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Great question on how one determines what dance to select for a particular song. I am a musician also, and I typically pick two step style dancing for certain tempos or Beats Per Minute [BPM] a song with about 90 BPM is perfect comfortable rhythm for two step, while a triple two, or one step, would be appropriate for faster tempo songs. Also, songs have different beat patterns such as a train shuffle beat, which is a straight beat, which is great for two step, and other songs have a bit of a swing to them, which typically makes them better triple twos or one steps. In summary, if I don't know the song, I let the beat clarify, then I pick two step, or triple step.... You can search on country songs with different BPM and get a good sample of this....

Hey you two look awesome! Great advise too! Are there classes to sign up for???

Tempo, musical style, rhythmic patterns.

Houston area huh? What's yalls fave place to go to for beginners in between bw8/610 loop? I've been to Stetsons but it has been a while. Wanting to get back into it. Tia.

Wish you had a studio in central Pa. If you know of one please let me know.

two steps are usually in 4/4( 4 beats per measure) that's how i feel if its a two step vs another style

So what happened to the video for Which dance for which song?

When I dance and my partner spins me a lot ( which I love ) how do I keep from getting dizzy. I try to spot but we are moving around the room so it’s difficult. Do you have any suggestions?

I have no idea how to explain how I know the difference between a two step song or shuffle, or waltz or cha cha or WCS. But I can always identify what dance goes with what music, sometimes more that one dance can fit. I'm amazed at people who cannot quickly identify the appropriate dance. I just listen and it's just obvious. Your thoughts?

What makes a 2-step song a 2-step? Never really thought about it. Do tell?

So, is Texas Two-Step just the country dance version of Foxtrot? And, to differentiate itself from Foxtrot it starts with QQ rather then SS as Foxtrot does?

I think generally two step is a country song at 75-95 bpm. Polka is a country song at ~100bpm+. I just have to listen for the beat.

So the way I was taught, if I can comfortably say triple step then it’s not a two step, it’s a 3step, triple two, wcs etc. if I can’t say it then it’s two step. On fast triple step songs they tend to sound bouncy to me so I polka. I’m only recently beginning to hear a cha cha beat but it’s more I just hear but can’t explain what I’m hearing. Wcs well on stretchy sounding sounds I’ll do that or I’ll blend it w all my triple step songs. Btw this is Justin with Breaking Bad Country Dance. Love you guys, love your videos!!

Do you try to show the quicks and slows by the length of your steps. Shorter steps on the quicks and longer on the slows. Or keep the length of your steps the same and hold longer on the slows?

Perhaps you answer the question about determining the style or chosen dance pattern, but here is my input..(preaching to the choir) You can generally swing OR two step to most songs with a 1-2-3-4 tempo, or 4/4 time signature. Good two step numbers generally are a little slower than swing, coming in about + - 100-130 BPM, (beats per minute) Swing starts about 130-150BPM and up. Both styles would have a very definitive DOWN beat almost as if 1-2 feels just a tiny bit stronger than the 3-4, but good swing seems to emphasize the 1 and 3 beat just a little more. Two examples, City of New Orleans, Willie Nelson, strong 1-2 beat, two step tempo. Jailhouse Rock, Elvis, strong 1-3 beat ( listen to the emphasis on the words Warden and Party) and just has a little "bounce" to it which lends itself to swing. That being said, you could dance either style to either song, there is no right or wrong..it's moving to music. Good way to determine BPM, start a stop watch on the downbeat of a song, count every beat for 6 seconds and add a zero.

You didn't explicitly say but I assume slowing the slows down is all about articulating your feet? Can you comment on that?

We can tell what kind of dance to do by listening to the beat of the song that's playing

My wife and I choose the dance style based on music genre and tempo or BPM. Progressive Double Two Step (1&2, 3&4, 5, 6) is popular in Dallas to 100-120 BPM country western music. We generally two-step to anything faster or slower. I guess West Coast Swing is usually to other genres in the plus or minus 110 BPM range. And Polka isn't really danced much in our part of the state.

So, if the patterns/turns start on the QQ, then technically aren't the cues on the second slow? If we start the dance with a SS, then we could turn on the first QQ. But, if we start with the QQ, an entire QQSS will pass before we turn. Correct?

When I hear a song, I note the beat then I quickly count the beat against the rhythm for the dances I know and see which of those matches the song I am listening to. Often I will find that there are two, sometimes three, different dances that I could dance to that song. No offense intended, country music isn't our thing but we did have a group class in Texas Two-Step about four years ago so I know the rhythm, thus I do recognize a song with a two-step beat.

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If it’s King George. You two step. Lol.

Let’s see with music getting it

Really, REALLY learned a lot from this, thank you. Love seeing the partner moves during FFSSlow. And your finesse, also showing weave, styles, and great pace. Thanks. You could consider your female partner getting to talk a little...?

Where could I find information on the “shuffle” style? My girlfriend dances that way and I would like to take her dancing without just sitting watching her dance with everyone else. (Witch isn’t a bad thing) I’ve been on dirt bikes and under a hood for my whole life so this is all new to me.

I dance quick quick quick slow slow. That way you aren't starting out on the same foot each time.

quick quick starts with hard beat listen to precussion

What kind of dance shoes is he wearing?

When in doubt look at dancers on the floor

you just know

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Y not dance with music at the end of the video?

There is something I don’t quite understand about some dance competitions I have watched. It appeared their dance moves and choreography did not go with the rhythm or timing of the music. I am a musician and my dance would have to match the song tempo and rhythm. If it doesn’t why have music? A fantastic dance is no good if it doesn’t work with the music timing. Most pop and country music is 4/4 or cut time.

You can two step to almost any song

Any Midland song lol 😆

Where is the video of Andrew interviewing th naughty grandma?

What makes a two step a two step.... a 4 4 time signature consisting of evenly distributed quarter notes and eighth notes in an any Garth Brooks song. Most two step songs are also written ion the key of G. West coast wing is typically written in 3 8 or 6 8 time with either 3 beats or 6 beats to the bar with each beat being an 8th note, a swing beat puts a 16th note on every third beat. A waltz is 4 4 time quarter note quarter note half note, example: Unforgiven by Metallica.

If the song mentions a vehicle or alcohol its a two step.

If two couples can legitimately dance at different speeds to the same song, does that mean that you don't actually dance to the beat of the music, with two step?

Real Country is two step lol