Tango Rhythm- Beats, Syncopat, 3+3+2

The best dancers who are in harmony with all aspects of the music--AND their partners, AND everything and everyone with whom they share the floor.
Every piece of music has a basic beat, like a heart beating, or a clock ticking. This beat may be fast or slow or in between, The speed of the beat is called the tempo. The beat and its tempo is set by the musicians & (good) dancers change their movement to match ---
By convention the first note is played a little louder than the rest, so we hear waltz music as ONE two three ONE two three. When four quarter notes are put into a measure musicians usually play the first note loudest but also play the third note a little louder than the second & fourth. So we hear ONE two Three four ONE two Three four.
Almost every partner dance has a set rhythm that exactly matches the measures of the music. Advanced rhythm dancers get so good at stepping (or playing) exactly on the beat that they like to add variety by going off the beat. This is called syncopation. In a waltz instead of SLOW slow slow the dancers might step SLOWER quick slow---
Advanced rhythm dancers do something even harder--begin step patterns on other beats than the major (first) beat of a measure.---
Even at their most extreme, however, rhythm dancers are working with step patterns that fit exactly within the metric structure of the music.
Tango dancers do something else: improvise step patterns & their rhythms as they dance. In a minute of dancing at the average tempo of tango music this could mean 60 slow steps, or 120 quick steps, or ANY COMBINATION IN BETWEEN. It could also mean some slow steps that are even slower than others, & times in which the dancers stop moving altogether.
--- . from Larry de Los Angeles http://world.std.com/~larrydla

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Argentine
• tango
• Music
• Rhythm
• beats
• Syncopat
• 3+3+2
• medimaging
• Amy
• Zheng

[Denmalition]

Great!! Thanks!

[VictoriaEatingCake]

Too bad the all important first part of the piece being played was clipped off. Silence is golden in music—s lead in of silence before they begin playing would be helpful.

[VictoriaEatingCake]

Go be an unlearning idiot somewhere else.

[caneandabel]

this man's a bit bossy. if he told me what to do i'd say no, and then i'd do a foxtrot. HA!

[odetothecat]

umm... too bad no one asked Mariela anything...

[kortemese]

Useful, thanks.