HolyEvil -> Baile accompaniment - Tangos question (Feb. 10 2012 11:25:13)
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hey guys, I started to go to a dance school this week, for the first hr, I am the only guitarist and I've never play for dance without any other guitarist present before, I didn't realise that the proper guitarist wasn't there for the first hr. I realised after those sessions that dancers and guitarist speak a slightly different language.. the compas of tangos to me is just a cycle of 4 beats.. it can be 2 cycles or 3 cycles or 4 cycles of 4 beats (playing compas) then falsetas then back to compas playing etc. but at the school, the teacher was telling the students that the changes for their steps comes when i change chords. Then she told me to play the cycle of tangos, I have NO idea what she was talking about, and I haven't done tangos in 2.5 years, so I just play the compas the way my teacher told me using the chord changes he showed me etc.. then she counted the phrases and then at the end of it, told the students that's 1 phrase of tangos, and I counted that to be 8 cycles of 4 beats.. This is how I play it. 1 cycle = 4 beats Bb -> A over 2 cycles Bb -> A over 2 cycles Bb over 1 cycle C7(or some sorta C) over 1 cycle Bb over 1 cycle A over 1 cycle then repeat SO my question is that is playing for tangos baile ALWAYS or mostly phrased that way, like 8 cycles of 4 beats? so IF I play falsetas (which I won't, and also can't due to my i finger problem), I have to make sure they fit into this 8 cycle of 4 beats? And if I vary my chords, it always has to fit into this 8 cycle? cheers
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