How do I learn a TikTok dance fast?
Fast comes from taking less at a time. A short dance has no gentle build-up, because something changes on nearly every count, so eight counts is too big a bite. Count in twos.
Run each pair at half speed before you run it with the song. Your head holds the order, your body the shape, and both want repetition. Once two counts go without thinking, add the next pair. Our guide on learning choreography from a video covers the longer routines.
- Watch the clip twice without joining in.
- Take the first two counts and set the speed to 0.5x.
- Do the arms on their own, then the feet, then both.
- Repeat until it goes without watching, then add two more counts.
- Go back to full tempo once the whole run holds together.
Which TikTok dance should I learn first?
Your first pick decides whether you are still dancing half an hour later. Go for one dancer in frame from head to feet, facing the camera, in calm light. The more of the feet you see, the less you guess.
Then pick on what is in it. Arms and hands land faster than jumps and floorwork, and a routine you have scrolled past ten times is half-learned already.
- One dancer, whole body in frame, filmed straight on.
- Mostly arms and hands, very little floorwork for a first go.
- A track where you hear the count straight away.
How do I practise from a clip that is only fifteen seconds long?
A short clip is the reason you want a loop. Fifteen seconds puts you back at the start before you have understood the move, so most of the session goes into restarting the clip instead of dancing.
Put a loop around the two counts you are drilling and let it come round on its own. On a dance you set up in Djensur you drop an A and a B during a run, and it goes back to A by itself. A strip along the stage floor takes you ten seconds back when you want a run-up to the move.
How do I get the video into the app?
You need a file, not a link. Djensur asks you to pick a video from your own phone with the picker you use for photos, and there is no field for pasting a TikTok link. So you need a clip that already sits on your device as a file: one you filmed yourself, or one the creator makes available. One dancer in frame, fifteen minutes at most.
Keep it fair to whoever made the routine. A dance you learned from someone else never goes out as your own work, and when you post your version you credit the choreographer.
The timing and the hands are the hard part
Fitness is almost never what stops people here. Fifteen seconds asks nothing of your lungs and everything of your accuracy: slightly early, slightly late, or a wrist at a different angle from the creator's.
So count out loud while you drill. Then look at the hands on a pass of their own, because that is where the character of a short routine lives. Same arm, different wrist, and it reads as a different dance. Our guide on learning choreography faster goes deeper into drilling one section.
How do I make my own version look good on camera?
When your version looks off next to the original, the dance is usually not the reason. The angle, the distance and the light are.
Hip height does the most work. A phone at eye level looks down on you and shrinks every movement; on the floor it does the opposite. Step back until you fit from head to feet, with the window or the lamp in front of you.
- Whole body in frame, with room above your head and below your feet.
- Phone at hip height, level and still.
- Light in front of you, on your face rather than on your back.
- Two extra steps of space, because you travel further than you think.
Learning a TikTok dance next to the dancer
Standing next to the dancer saves you the glance back and forth between the screen and yourself. Djensur cuts you out of your room live and puts you on one stage with the dance, and that cut-out happens on your own device, so no footage of your room comes to us.
One thing to know: your own image reads like a mirror, while the dancer stays exactly as the video was filmed. If the creator films from behind you can copy straight across. If they face you, left and right still swap.
- Add the video file you want to learn from, with one dancer in frame.
- The app sets the dance up. That takes a while, needs internet, and the screen stays on.
- Pick one of the thirteen stages and use the two sliders to put you and the dancer at the same size.
- Drop to 0.5x and put A and B around the two counts you are drilling.
- Dance. Every run records itself, and afterwards you keep the clip or drop it.
- Share it as you and the dancer, or as just you, straight to TikTok or Instagram.