r/tango

🎸 Doña Soledad (Alfredo Zitarrosa) — Arreglo fingerstyle con partitura sincronizada.
Candombe de 1968 para guitarra solista, nivel intermedio/avanzado.
📥 Partitura en patreon

I want you guys to tell me my glaring mistakes and what i can improve. I feel like i watched myself so much that i am having art blindness so i want 3rd party opinions.

When hitting a double time step in vals, do you personally tend to step on 1-2-1, or 1-3-1? Or does it change depending on the particular step or the dynamic you want?

Are you a leader or a follower?

As a leader, for steps where the follower is stepping double time independently of the leader (e.g. giro or basic cross) do you try to lead the double time step specifically on the 2 or 3, or do you leave it more open to the follower's interpretation?

I observe that most students, if left to their own devices, will settle on 1-2-1.

I'm traveling to BsAs, and I'm planning to take some local group classes. On the 24th, 25th, and 26th, I will be alone (most of my friends arrive after August 27th). Is there anyone in this group who would like to join me in some group classes?

I have an idea of which classes I want to attend, but I'm open to any suggestions.

I'm from Chile, and I speak Spanish and English. 😊

I am an improver Tango dancer and I’d like to visit Buenos Aires, to take Tango classes and go to Milonga‘s but also for Spanish immersion and sight sighting

I speak Spanish and I’ve traveled in Latin America- but never alone.

Organized Tango trips are extremely expensive. I am on the Tango Vida group, which is super helpful. Does anyone know of any homestay or language immersion programs in BA that would complement a Tango focused trip?

Or any other tips?

You walk into the room, and out of the couple hundred people, you probably know 10-20. Sampling the dancing, so you can cabeceo selectively, would take ages. That's not what you came for. From shoes, fancy tango clothes, toned body, to posture when sitting or standing, they got all the trix down. So, you just dance.

And end up with 10% outstanding tandas, 30% OKish tandas, 30% meh tandas, and 30% really bad tandas. It feels like any ordinary Milonga anywhere in the world. Which makes you question why you travelled and paid hundreds of bucks for attendance.

What’s your strategy to make this a better experience?

Something simple, like back ochos or molinete or ocho cortado - these are led very differently. What do leaders do that will result in these feeling very different from one another? This connects to the age old question of, do leaders need to know a lot of different steps/sequences or can they do something to make the same motions feel different.

How often do you feel lust while dancing? I danced maybe with 30 or 40 different women and always feel it to 3 of them. Women, do you feel something that?

🎸 Niño (Milo J / Gregorio Nelli / Tránsito Cocomarola) — Arreglo fingerstyle con partitura sincronizada.

📥 Partitura PDF en Patreon

Tango music lives by orchestra and era more than any genre label, so this might be a strange fit, and that is exactly what I want to find out.

Tempo Tunes builds playlists where every song matches a target tempo. Pick a BPM, set a tolerance, lean toward artists, pin an era, and it generates a playlist that holds that tempo, pulled from 1.5M+ tempo-verified tracks and growing. There is an Obscure to Popular slider for deep cuts versus familiar songs. Playlists save straight to Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube Music. Free, no ads, on iPhone, Android, and web at tempo-tunes.com.

Where I suspect it could earn a place in tango, and where I need honest answers:

• Alternative and nuevo sets: finding non-tango songs that sit at a danceable tango tempo seems like the strongest use. If you DJ alternative milongas, is tempo hunting a real chore?
• Practicas: a playlist that holds one steady tempo for drilling. Useful, or do you only ever practice to the classics?
• The honest weakness: the library skews toward streaming-era catalogs. Golden age recordings are in there through remasters, but I would not claim deep coverage of every D'Arienzo transfer. If you try it and your orchestra is missing, tell me, that is exactly the feedback I want.

Dev here, happy to answer anything. Dancers in the ballroom and west coast swing subs already reshaped parts of the app with their feedback, so blunt answers are welcome.

I have danced one year and at intermediate level. Sometimes I find myself with effortless talent and have gotten reassurance from my dance partners and teachers like ”you really don’t have any previous dancing experience??” ”Just a year??? I haven’t seen many people learned tango so fast” and i have gotten a lot of practise partner requests. OK but that’s about praises, I really love tango and have put a lot of work to it and understanding my body.

I feel like my biggest challenge at the moment is mental. Maybe it has something to do with being intermediate, which means you got something crystal clear, but the next week you feel like you have lost it. Integrating things takes time. Maybe because sometimes I dance so well, I have kind of pressure and dissapointment when things don’t work the same.

But anyways, I have suffered a lot from bad tango days recently, sometimes there is a good in between. I would like to learn some mental tools to turn even some of these days better. That is a skill too.

On bad days it is harder to access the technique, meaning floor connection, core and relaxed shoulders. Also it’s harder to connect to the music and to my partner. I often feel nervous and trying harder doesn’t help. Like I know what my body should feel, but I cant reach it. I should just not dance on those days? If someone can relate and feel like they have moved pass this, i would appreciate the help.

Hola a todos y gracias por leer este post, mi hijo tiene un souvenir Argentino el cual es una cajita musical y nos gustaría saber si la canción que toca es un tango y el nombre de la canción, si alguien lo sabe agradecemos compartir la información, gracia.

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