Becoming A Square Dance Caller 3rd Edition (Book)

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Bruce Holmes (Bruce@BruceTHolmes.com)

2020-02-02

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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