(10) Rhythm, continued
I’m a long time student and teacher of tango guitar. This series of articles is for tango guitar students and guitarists interested in pursuing tango. Contact me for more information on lessons and workshops. Back in article 4 I discussed two broad categories of rhythmic patterns for tango: marcato and síncopa. It’s time to get into a few more. Without further ado… Marcato Remember that marcato, in one form or another, dominates tango rhythm. Here are three options,variations
Yira yira: Quintissential Tango Nihilism
Making sense of the lyrics... Enrique Santos Discépolo was one of tango’s greatest creators and perhaps the embodiment of tango and porteño angst. No one did a better job at conveying (via excellent music and lyrics) these classic negative sentiments: the world is a mess (Cambalache), a woman stole everything from me (Chorra), try to be a hero and you will be betrayed (Fangal), If you love you’ll lose (Uno)…and the list goes on and on. But Yira, Yira, one of his earliest tang
