Tango music: four beats in a bar, two beats slow and one beat fast. 1234 is a commonly used teaching method; But musically, tango is 2/4 beats per bar, one bar should be two beats, slow is one beat, fast is half beat, and the beat number algorithm should be 1a2a, just like samba. But this algorithm is rarely used by teachers; It is suggested to use the algorithm of 1234, which is not easy to cause confusion.
When the English tango was first created, the speed was 33 bars per minute. However, with the increasingly complicated dance steps of competitive tango, the music speed has been forced to drop to 30 bars per minute in order to achieve good performance.
Characteristics of tango dance:
/kloc-from the end of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century, with the slave trade entering America, Latin American folk dance styles were merged, and Mexican tango with elegant and free dance and Argentine tango with bold and vigorous dance steps were formed, which were later introduced to Europe and developed continuously.
The accompaniment music of tango dance is 2/4 beat, but it is a staccato performance with strong sense of rhythm. So in actual performance, every quarter note becomes two octaves, so each bar has four octaves.
Tango is one of the official events in the international standard dance competition. When dancing the tango, the posture of the male and female combination is slightly different from other international dances, which is called "tango positioning". The two sides are closer together, the male right arm and the female left arm should be more inward, the bodies should touch each other, and the center of gravity should be shifted. Men mainly have their right feet, while women have their left feet.