Dave Bailey
Active Member
I go one further. I put my class notes online. I have this idea that it helps reinforce concepts.
Boy, you must think I'm the Anti-Christ now.
Teaching Musicality to tango dancers
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Boy, you must think I'm the Anti-Christ now.
Dave Bailey
Active Member
No, I'm Sparta- oh, hold on, I'm not...
The TRUTH IS OUT!
Dave Bailey and Dchester are one in the same! That's why DB doesn't have a photo up!
Now all we have to do is figure out which side of the pond this tango-god lives at....
I'm actually several other posters too... just the ones who's posts I admire though.... only those.. no one else.... won't name names cause then we.. uh I mean, I, won't be anonymous anymore....
Dave Bailey
Active Member
Absolutely. Nothing to do with me being too cheap to pay for a subscription, oh no.
Peaches
Well-Known Member
Topic?! We don't need no stinkin' topic!
Hey as long as you are clarifying for me (and this thread has already been derailed anyway) how does one know in the basic Chacarera whether the full circle before the individual "showing off" part will be 6 or 8 counts?
sorry for the NO spanish. I didn't write it down as the actual terms, I wrote my translation of what happened for those terms.
One doesn't -that is part of the charm...:bouncy: (i had to try this smiley ...)
Well, if one is lucky/has a good ear the "halfway point" of the big circle is marked by the music (which then leads to mad scrambling to manage the turn
), else you just get surprised by the start of the "showing off" part - that is always clearly marked, and you stop, and more or less gracefully pretend that you wanted to be where you are, and ooze to where you really want to be - and because the big circles for chacarera on 6 has to be smaller anyway it is usually not that bad - and the next round you know what to expect. My teacher thought that non-argentineans take chacarera too seriously because we learn it from professional performers and not folk dancers, and if something goes wrong you just laugh and fix it in the next pass.Gssh
Can i be David, too?
Do you speak American, or just that funny English dialect?
Great.. so I've been doing it right all along.. what with the oozing and everything....
I use oozing in tango too, although it doesn't work as well for me in milonga.
well I already knew that because I'm Spectator.
I want to be the dynamic duo of Amsterman and Bastetwoman
(can you imagine having the superpowers of both of them COMBINED?):banana:
Dave Bailey
Active Member
Well you can say it...