Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
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Bruce Holmes (Bruce@BruceTHolmes.com) |
2020-02-02 |
When Bruce Holmes was learning to call, he had no luck finding a textbook to help him through the process. Now that he is a caller, he has written the book he wished he had when he was first learning. You can read the table of contents by clicking on the button below. For purchase information click on the Purchase Online link to the left. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why I Wrote This Book ……………….. 5
The Plan ………………… 6
The Circle Before The Square …………….. 8
Into The Square ………………….. 12
Remembering The People In Your Square ………….. 13
Modules ……………………. 13
Equivalents ………………. 14
Flow ………………….. 15
Sight Calling Light …………… 18
More Modules ………………….. 19
The Loop ………………….. 21
Moving Around The Square ………………. 24
Your First Sequence …………… 28
Technical & Fractional Zeros …………… 29
Doppelgängers …………… 30
Partner Lines ………………. 31
Converting From Boxes To Lines And Back Again ……… 34
Building Your Library ……………….. 36
Set Sequences ………………….. 39
Standard Applications ………………. 41
Module calling versus Sight Calling, Part II …………… 43
How To Resolve …………… 44
Don’t Always Use An Allemande Left ……………. 45
FASR …………….. 46
sequence Practice …………… 47
Easy Calls Resolve ………………. 49
First Objective, Get Everyone Into Lines Facing In …………….. 49
Next Objective: Pair Up Your Primary Couple version 1 …………… 50
Final Objective: Resolve …………………. 52
When All The Couples Are Paired Up …………… 53
When The Secondary Couple Is Not Paired Up …………… 55
Easy Calls Resolve Summarized ……………. 58
Pairing Up Your Primary Couple version 2 ……………. 59
Classic Resolve …………… 61
Grand Resolve ……………. 64
Get-Ins …………………. 68
To Corner Box ………………….. 68
To Partner Lines ……………… 71
Non-Standard Crossfire Get-Ins ……………. 73
Get-Outs ………………. 75
Resolves From Partner Lines ………………… 75
Resolves From Ocean Waves …………. 77
Resolving Using Folds …………….. 79
Partner Lines to an Allemande Left ……………… 81
Resolves From Corner Box …………….. 82
You’re Home From Corner Box ……………… 85
Little Pieces of the Puzzle …………. 87
Advanced Grand Resolve ………….. 89
Getting To Partner Lines When The Couples Aren’t Paired ……… 91
Box Resolves – Couples Facing Couples ……….. 92
The Grand Resolve Summarized …………… 95
Home Resolves …………… 97
Primary Couple Home Resolves ……………. 99
Moving to a Quadrant ………….. 102
The Tools At Hand ………………… 104
Sweep ¼ to Home Get-Outs ………………… 105
From Partner Lines to Sweep ¼ …………. 111
Cool Endings …………….. 112
Flip The Diamond …………………. 112
Using Scoot Back & Box The Gnat ………………. 112
Spin Chain Thru ……………. 113
Chase Right ……………. 113
Follow Your Neighbor ………….. 116
Half Tag ………………….. 117
In Praise Of Sight Calling, Part LXLVII ………….. 118
What Makes For Good Calling? ……………… 119
Being A Delightful Host ……………….. 120
When Teaching, Kindness Is Everything …………… 120
Microphones …………………. 121
Confidence …………….. 121
When You Mess Up ………………. 122
Music For Patter ………………. 123
Modifying The BPM ……………… 124
Stringing Songs Together ……………. 124
Singing Calls …………….. 125
Getting The Verse Sequence To Work ……….. 126
Putting A Singing Call Together …………. 127
Singing …………………… 130
Getting Started In Calling ………………. 131
Equipment ………………… 132
Intro Parties …………….. 135
The Talk ……………. 138
Lessons ……………… 140
Why I Use Club50/SSD …………………. 141
The Forgotten Calls ……………… 143
Fixing Half-Out Squares ………………. 144
Filling Out Squares ………………. 145
Rectangles ………………… 145
Getting Up To Call ……………. 150
Conventions ……………… 151
Games Callers Play ………….. 153
Callerlab Definitions ……………….. 154
Lists …………………… 155
Equivalents ……………. 155
Corner Box Get-Ins ………………. 156
Alternatives to Allemande Left from a Corner Box …………. 157
Partner Line Get-Ins …………….. 158
Partner Line Get-Outs ………….. 159
A-Box Get-Outs ……………… 161
D-Box Get-Outs ……………… 161
Box To Line Conversions …………….. 162
Chicken Pluckers ………………….. 163
Get-Outs To Home ………………… 163
Resources ………………….. 165
Callerlab ……………. 168
FASR …………………… 169
Formations ……………….. 170
Eight Chain Thru …………… 171
Facing Lines (Lines Facing In) …………….. 172
Lines Facing Out …………… 173
Trade By ………………… 174
Double Pass Thru …………………. 175
Completed Double Pass Thru ……………… 175
Parallel Two-Faced Lines ……………. 176
Parallel Ocean Waves ………….. 177
Columns (Right or Left) ……………….. 178
Z Formations (Left & Right) ………………… 178
Fractional Tags …………….. 179
Point To Point Diamonds …………….. 180
Facing Point To Point Diamonds ………… 180
Tidal Wave …………….. 181
Tidal Two-Faced Line ………….. 181
Arrangement ……………. 182
Half Sashayed Solutions ………………. 182
Waves …………….. 183
How Circulates Change Arrangement ……….. 185
Diamonds ………………. 185
Sequence …………………… 186
Alternative Resolve Methods ………….. 187
Mental Image ………………… 187
CRaMS ……………………. 187
Call List ……………… 188
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