Exercises

These exercises will help you developing the skill of varying your steps in basic.

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There was12, and became21

For simplicity, let's take a 6 count basic. By inverting first triple step we obtain the following basic (formally triple shifted one step to the beginning of the basic):

1

step

rock

1

step

triple

2

bllch

step

1

step

1

step

triple

2

bllch

step

Just a second:

1

step

rock

1

step

step

1

step

triple

2

bllch

step

2

bllch

1

step

both:

1

step

rock

1

step

triple

2

bllch

step

1

step

triple

2

bllch

step

1

step

With such a replacement basic steps number remains even. Proceed similarly with 8 count basic.