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Overview

I have some friend who shuffle and it's always something I'd like to be good at. I've never actually put any time into learning how.

There is a trip planned for March, this gives me a motive to work towards. Some videos have been sent through and I've found some tutorials on YouTube so I'll be putting some time into the learning and then will post my progress here.

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Research

How to screen record using QuickTime

Video Guide / Apple Guide

  1. Search quick time from spotlight on mac
  2. Press file from the sticky nav on the top
  3. Go to File>New Screen Recording

How to record the internal audio

Video Guide

To do this you need to install a third party app called BlackHole. Steps to complete this are listed below

Download and Install
  1. Download BlackHole (GitHub Link)
  2. Use a tempmail email address to obtain a download link
  3. Complete the setup wizard
Setup of aggregate device
  1. From spotlight search, find "*Audio MIDI Setup*"
  2. Click the plus at the bottom right then choose "*Create aggregate device*"
  3. Check use "*BlackHole 16ch*" and your microphone for voice
  4. Click the plus again then choose "*Create multi-output device*"
  5. Check the "*Built-in output*" and the "*BlackHole 16ch*"
  6. Make sure they're in the correct order, built-in appearing at the top of the list
Renaming the audio devices
  1. Rename the aggregate to "Quick time input"
  2. Rename the Multi-Output Device to "Screen recording audio"
System preferences
  1. Open System Preferences from spotlight search
  2. Go to Sound>Output>Screen recording audio
Quick Time player settings
  1. Open QuickTime Player
  2. Go to File>Recording>Options>Microphone>QuickTime Input
Reverting settings**
  1. Open spotlight search
  2. Go to Sound>Output>Macbook Air Speakears

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Finding and recording shuffling tutorials

I gathered a bunch of tutorial videos from @DimaSergeychik with the hope to add these to a shared folder



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SHUFFLING PRACTICE



SESSION 1

31/01/24



Thoughts:
I found a song which made me appreciate the tech house snares for shuffling


Song name: Caught In Your Rhythm
Artist: GotSome & Clementine Douglas

Link to song on spotify


shuffling-video-on-laptop
Showing the laptop setup


Running man progress after 1 hour

Feedback from Dat:

  • Try to be more bouncy to avoid the foot scrapes
  • He also gave Dan feedback to put pressure through the middle and back part of the running man, not the front step

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SESSION 2

02/02/24



Goal:
I was aiming to progress the feet cross however I eneded up progressing my running man based on Dat's feedback from the first session



Video of running man after 45 minutes

put 25 minutes into the feet cross

Idea:
Create a dropdown where I could select the session number, this would then show certain detail. For example you select 2 then it will show the notes / teaching points / goals etc. Might be an idea to neaten things up into a format too.


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SESSION 3

04/02/24



Goal:
The plan is to practice the Charleston


Learnt happy feet technique from Marbiik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOBhZBLOio

Charleston beginner tutorial from Marbiik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YhzRZDatn8


around 60 minutes of progress towards the Charleston

around 15 minutes of progress towards happy feet

Next session:
Learnt how to do the charleston with my right leg swining, will work on my left leg swinging next session.

I also learnt how to the do the happy feet, I didn't put much time into the learning this


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SESSION 4

05/02/24



Focus: Practising the charleston with both feet one in front of another

Video used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YhzRZDatn8


Video of charleston progress after about 120 more minutes (3 hour total)

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SESSION 5

07/02/24



Focus:
Charleston - shufflers version

Video used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVwkc9qXjGk


No Progress video of Charleston as my phone died



Fast paced running man in time with a song


T-step learning - video used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bniL9e3aIdE


Looped T-step, feet swap


Running man (realisation): When watching the perfect shuffle vid. When moving his feet from middle to back his feet go out further from the middle than middle step, same for the front foot


@markfingers - Running man

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SESSION 6

12/02/24



Focus: Learn the T-step

Initial video used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bniL9e3aIdE

I initially watched this video and learned to transition from one foot to the other foot. I found that it's better to learn the move then be more creative with the movement.


Video used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdN8S2phxbs

This video was more helpful as he says about weighting on your feet when moving and when turning. It also says about how you should position your feet to form the T-shape.


Showing about 1 hour of T-step progress

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SESSION 7

16/02/24



Focus: To learn other moves which can be used to chain different footwork steps

Video used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4wFsKVXuc


No video of progress

I spent just over an hour working on mainly Scissor toe taps from the above video. I watched it on half speed to make it easier to follow

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SESSION 8

21/02/24



Focus: Progressing left scissor toe taps then chaining both feet

  • Put some more time into learning the double tap as seen below
  • Practised learnt moves using my left foot more than right

video of dat doing the double tap

Next time: I think I need to put more time into learning the T-step and maybe some time into copying people I like to learn moves to chain together



SESSION 9

23/02/24



Focus: Perfect the double tap

Warmed up and then put some more time into previously learnt moves

Video of progress

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SESSION 10

26/02/24



Focus: No focus

Watched some videos from Dat's folder of shufflers

Just overall improvement, nothing specific

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SESSION 11

28/02/24



Focus: No focus

Watched dctdalia21 and also reddit 40 yo

Realised that reddit guy is good at transitioning his moves

Showing 40yo reddit man clip

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SESSION 12

01/03/24



Focus: 40 reddit sequence

Got 10 seconds into the 40 yo reddit sequence

No clips

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SESSION 13

03/03/24



Event: DJ Daddy Trance @ Outernet

No clips

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SESSION 14

03/03/24



Focus: No focus

Nothing specific

No clips

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SESSION 15

date



Focus: No focus

Nothing specific

No clips

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Time tracking

Blog page creation

22/01/24 | start 21:11 | end 21:25 | 14 minutes

  • created the initial page

QuickTime learning

28/01/24 | start 15:00 | end 15:12 | 12 minutes

  • How to record macbook screen with quicktime
  • Recorded the backsteps shuffle
  • Created grouped tabs on chrome

QuickTime recording internal audio & Tutorial research

28/01/24 | start 19:20 | end 21:22 | 2 hours 2 minutes

  • Going through youtube shorts to find moves I like
  • Learning how to record laptop audio when using QuickTime
  • Screen recorded a bunch of basic tutorials, these will later be collated into an iCloud album then I'll link that to this page

QuickTime recording internal audio & Tutorial research

28/01/24 | start 19:20 | end 21:22 | 2 hours 2 minutes

  • Going through youtube shorts to find moves I like
  • Learning how to record laptop audio when using QuickTime
  • Screen recorded a bunch of basic tutorials, these will later be collated into an iCloud album then I'll link that to this page

Reformatting this page from Markdown to HTML

29/01/24 | start 19:10 | end 20:33 | 1 hour 23 minutes

  • Formatting "My Shuffling journey page
  • Navbar research

Session 1

31/01/24 | start 19:56 | end 21:15 | 1 hour 19 minutes

  • watched the back step video at half speed
  • Looked through some of the other videos too

Formatting the first shuffling content

31/01/24 | start 22:23 | end 22:48 | 25 minutes

  • formatted the content
  • recorded the renegage master shuffling video (goal to aim towards)

Session 2

02/02/2024 | start 18:37 | end 19:50 | 1 hour 13 minutes

  • added feedback from Dat regarding the first video
  • running man progress
  • idea about having a dropdown

Session 3

04/02/24 | start 19:47 | end 21:36 | 1 hour 49 minutes

  • Learnt the charleston with right leg swing
  • Learnt the happy feet

Session 4

05/02/24 | start 18:02 | end 20:02 | 2 hours

  • Practiced the Charleston both feet

Session 5

07/02/24 | start 19:52 | end 21:35 | 1 hour 43 minutes

  • Watched Zanouji charleston tutorial
  • Watched Zanouji T-step tutorial

Formatting content (session 1 -> 5)

07/02/24 | start 21:35 | end 23:29 | 1 hour 54 minutes

  • Added videos from sessions 1 to 5
  • Formatted content so that it looked more uniform between all sessions

Session 6

12/02/24 | start 19:56 | end 21:12 | 1 hour 16 minutes

  • Started doing Charleston but ran out of space
  • Started to learn the s-step from Zanouji but switched to Marbiik
  • Took a video of the progress
  • Wrote session 6 info up then formatted

Session 7

14/02/24 | start 22:08 | end 22:30 | 22 minutes

  • 18 minutes of formatting
  • Setup for session 7

Session 7

16/02/24 | start 20:52 | end 22:31 | 1 hour 39 minutes

  • Setup session 8
  • 1 hour 19 minutes of shuffling
  • Hyperlinked all of the refrenced youtube videos

Session 8

21/02/24 | start 19:48 | end 21:42 | 1 hour 54 minutes

  • Put about an hour and half into shuffling
  • Put some more time into learning the double tap as seen below
  • Practised learnt moves using my left foot more than right

Session 9

23/02/24 | start 19:08 | end 20:27 | 1 hour 19 minutes

  • Warmed up and done the steps I already knew
  • Recorded a video showing running man, criss cross, toe steps and the double tap

Session 10

26/02/24 | start 19:46 | end 21:03 | 1 hour 17 minutes

  • Core movement practice

Session 11

28/02/24 | start 19:49 | end 21:05 | 1 hour 16 minutes

  • Watched dctdalia21 and also reddit 40 yo
  • Practised core movements and worked on trying to transition

Session 12

01/03/24 | start 19:30 | end 21:35 | 2 hours 4 minutes

  • Got 10 seconds of 40 yo reddit

Session 13

03/03/24 | start 00:08 | end 04:38 | 4 hours 29 minutes

  • Event at outernet

Session 14

04/03/24 | start 17:55 | end 19:38 | 1 hour 42 minutes

  • Nothing specific

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