How do I learn a TikTok dance?
Choose a dance whose sound you can stand hearing forty times, find a tutorial or a mirrored version, split it into three-to-five-second phrases, and learn each phrase feet first, arms second, with the video slowed down. Record each attempt and watch it back for the one thing that looks most different. A fifteen-second routine with repeating steps usually takes an hour or two of focused practice.
Choose well
A dance with a repeating structure — the same eight twice — is half the work of one that changes every count. Watch it through a few times before deciding. Search for a tutorial version; many creators post one, and a tutorial that names the moves saves you naming them yourself.
Phrase by phrase
Set the playback to half or three-quarter speed and mirror it if the app allows. Learn one phrase at a time: watch, mark the feet, dance the feet, add the arms. Join phrases as you go. Most TikTok routines are four to six phrases long.
Record it
Filming yourself is the only reliable way to close the gap between how a move feels and how it reads on camera, which is the whole point of a dance that lives on camera. Record every attempt, watch it once, fix the biggest thing, go again.
Frame it like the original
Vertical phone, whole body in shot, camera at roughly chest height. Stand where your feet stay above the bottom fifth of the frame so captions and buttons do not cover them.
Step by step
- Pick the dance. Repeating structure, a sound you can loop for an hour, ideally with a tutorial.
- Slow and mirror the video. Half to three-quarter speed; mirrored so left is left.
- Learn each phrase. Three to five seconds at a time: feet, then arms.
- Join the phrases. Drill each join until it is as clean as the phrases.
- Record and fix one thing. Every attempt. Watch once. One fix. Again.