Not that you have to use the music but New River Train  Nils Fredland compilation of Keith Blackmon's traditional singing squares is a great resource. Available through CDSS. It has music and calls along with notes. Theycare grouped by easy to more difficult, keepers or mixers. Since most bands don't know the tunes (Souix Souix City Sue; New River Train etc) I have been using the chance calls/templates and adding or messing up some of them. 

The more I call them the more comfortable I get with hash calling a square or parts of one.

Good luck. Relax, fool around.

Mary "from Buffalo", not.

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 12:21 PM Maia McCormick via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
After dancing to some of Lisa's Greenleaf's 🔥 squares at Beantown Stomp last weekend, I'm feeling inspired to add some to my repertoire. (To be clear, I'm looking for squares-for-contra-dancers, not MWSD squares.)
  1. Any resources to recommend for someone learning to call squares?
  2. Any advice to share, techniques to look into, things you wish you'd known when starting out / wish contra callers knew about squares?
  3. Suggestions for callers to look up on YouTube (besides Lisa ofc) / fave videos?
  4. Favorite dances that I should add to my box?
Thanks in advance,
Maia
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