Mixing Beginning Elements - Interrupting Media Vuelta With the Basic and Front Ochos
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Just because we don't want you to forget:
For the Leaders: If anything ever goes wrong, just keep your cool, switch weight and get back together.
For the Followers: Keep your cool (this is not necessarily easy) and be still with the leader.
- Artist Name:
- Aníbal Troilo
- Song Title:
- A Fuego Lento
- Album Title:
- A Fuego Lento
- Artist Website:
- http://www.troilo.com.ar/
(From Wikipedia): Anibal Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with social dancers during the golden age of tango (1940-1955), but he changed to a concert sound by the late 1950s. Troilo's orchestra is best known for its instrumentals and also recorded with many vocalists.
- 00:30
- And you look at that and say,
“What did they do?” - 00:32
- D: And -
N: That’s what we’re going to teach. - 00:35
- The answer is that they’re elements
you already know. - 00:38
- So every element that we just did,
you know. - 00:41
- So it starts with media vuelta,
interrupted to basic. - 00:46
- Starting here actually.
- 00:48
- So we have side, forward, she goes around,
she goes around. - 00:51
- All this is media vuelta.
She keeps pivoting. - 00:54
- Right here we’re media vuelta still
and normally we exit by... - 00:57
- ..he goes back two,
she goes forward two. - 00:59
- Instead, we’re going to step side
and go straight into a basic. - 01:07
- Right so that’s the first point;
- 01:09
- That you can just interrupt the media vuelta,
side, forward. - 01:14
- You don’t have to go back.
You can go side instead, to your basic. - 01:20
- Now we did a second interruption,
which we taught you in the earlier chapter... - 01:25
- ..where we interrupted the basic
with front ochos. - 01:27
- So when we went into this basic...
- 01:28
- ...we said well if we’re going to be in the mood
to interrupt things.. - 01:30
- ...after the basic right here.
- 01:33
- We did the one where she went into front ochos
out of that cross. - 01:40
- And then at the end we sort of stopped
and changed weight so we were together. - 01:44
- Now...
- 01:45
- ..this is more about the thing
that we were talking about before... - 01:48
- ..which is that you could do anything,
at any time and anyplace. - 01:51
- Yes, thank you
- 01:52
- You can just stop the media vuelta
any place you want. - 01:55
- You can stop the basic
any place you want. - 01:57
- You can 'Lego' things together
and it’s really cool. - 02:02
- And so for example if we have our media vuelta,
side, forward, she goes around... - 02:06
- ..if you freeze right here,
normally we keep pivoting. - 02:08
- So she steps forward and we pivot again.
- 02:10
- Instead of having her take that forward step,
I can just go straight side... - 02:14
- ..she can go straight forward and
magically we’re into front ochos. - 02:22
- Magically.
- 02:23
- Yes, magically. So again.
- 02:28
- Normally I pivot, she steps forward around
and then I pivot some more. - 02:33
- However this time...
- 02:39
- ..I pivot, she’s on that right foot,
I've pivoted more. - 02:41
- Now we just go straight into front ochos.
different angle: - 02:53
- And right here, there we are.
- 02:57
- I step side with her as she steps forward.
- 02:59
- So let’s do this again and I’ll call out
what we’re doing... - 03:02
- ..and you can say,
“Oh wow, that’s right we do know that.” - 03:07
- Let's see, we actually started over here.
- 03:11
- So we have side, through here is media vuelta,
media vuelta, media vuelta... - 03:14
- ..we pivot, here’s our basic.
- 03:21
- Here instead of doing tango close,
we do front ochos from previous chapters. - 03:29
- We do media vuelta again.
- 03:33
- But now I say,
“Well we don’t have to finish that media vuelta.” - 03:37
- And there are our front ochos.
- 03:39
- Isn’t that cool.
- 03:41
- So once again:
anything from anyplace, at anytime.
