What do Valerie Rockey from SYTYCD Season 11, Mallory Hagen, Miss America 2013, and some of today’s top Tap Choreographers, including Darryl Retter, Gregg Russell, Keith Clifton, Thommie Retter, Brooke Paulsen, and Terry Lindholm, have in common?
The Al Gilbert Tap Technique!
This is the expanded and updated Al Gilbert Grade 2 Tap Technique set to contemporary music. Level 2 builds on the foundation learned from Level 1. All of the familiar steps from the original Grade 2 are here. There are OVER 50 Exercises on this DVD designed to help beginner tappers step up their tap game. Level 2 is intended for your 7-9-year-old tappers to develop a basic tap technique that will be used year after year. The Al Gilbert Grade 2 Tap Technique is the perfect level for your beginner adult tap students! Each DVD has been digitally re-mastered to improve sound quality, easy menu navigation for quick exercise selection, and PDF notes on the disc. Insert the disc into your computer CD/DVD Rom to view or print. *The CD companion is also available on CDNT2, exclusively through MusicWorks!
In Grade 2, Al Gilbert presents steps such as:
Barre Exercises
- Shuffle Variations
- Ball Change Variations
- Maxi Fords
- Heel/Kick Ball Change Variations
- Buffalos
- Irish
- Flap Variations
- Hop Shuffle Step… And many more!!
Center Exercises
- Right & Left Exercises
- Boogie Woogie Combinations
- Cakewalk Kicks
- Charleston Step
- Waltz Clog Variations
- Sugars
- Chaine Variations… And many more!!
The music for this grade level is here.
The video/audio bundle is here – save 30%.