Additional Beginning Elements - Six Count Basic
- This is a great core beginning step which is very versatile. It can be turned. It can easily be danced to waltz timing.
- It's a good idea to work on hard things using easier steps. So this is a good step to use if you want to work on navigation or musicality or connection or styling or...
- Artist Name:
- Aníbal Troilo
- Song Title:
- Pa' Que Bailen Los Muchachos
- Album Title:
- Como Yo Lo Siento
- 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.
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- OK
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- So we’re going to teach the six count basic now.
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- And the six count basic,
how did it go? - 00:13
- Well okay, we teach three different basics at least.
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- And we’ve gone for a while
teaching the three different basics... - 00:20
- ..and then a little while down the road,
over and over again, students will say to me... - 00:23
- ..the Six Count Basic,
they don’t even call it that, - 00:26
- ..they say this basic is
the only one you ever taught us. - 00:28
- And we know we’ve taught them;
the three different basics, multiple times. - 00:32
- But this is the one they remember.
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- It’s really accessible.
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- It’s not hard to understand that you go;
side, forward, forward, side, back, back or the opposite... - 00:41
- ..side, back, back, side, forward, forward
and you just don’t change feet. - 00:44
- N: You’ll go with the free feet.
D: So, we'll show. - 00:46
- Yes.
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- So we have sidestep and then two steps.
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- Side step and then two steps.
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- She goes side and two back,
then side and two forward. - 01:02
- And we’re making it look a little more complicated.
It’s actually just a rectangle. - 01:06
- When we take this side step and go forward,
I go straight through her though. - 01:10
- So I’ll go side and you’ll see that
I’m going to step on the outside. - 01:13
- But I don’t do this.
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- Right she doesn’t feel loved and
we want her to feel loved. - 01:19
- Absolutely.
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- So instead when I go side, even though I’m stepping outside,
my body is going through her body. - 01:25
- And likewise here, she keeps her body
going through mine. - 01:28
- So you see it’s almost as if
our bodies cover each other. - 01:35
- Now also for the ladies and
the guys actually, both... - 01:39
- ..you want to think that to do that
you’re going to slice straight through your partner. - 01:42
- If I do it to the camera,
it looks like this. - 01:48
- And so you see the directness of the line.
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- Now one of the cools things about the six count basic is
that frankly it’s reasonably easy. - 01:57
- You know, you spend a little time and
you get it and then you have it. - 02:00
- And that means you have brain free for
lots of cool things. - 02:02
- So that instead of having to have
all your brain focused on this fancy step... - 02:08
- ..and you’re like “Oh, I’ll do this.
And then I’ll do that. And then there’s this.” - 02:11
- And your body ends up contorted like this.
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- So instead of that, you can have the brain free
to focus on other things. - 02:17
- So for example we might do different musicality.
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- And that - it’s freeing and
it lets you dance more. - 02:35
- So you can use it that way.
N. We turned it a little bit, too. - 02:36
- Yes, yes but you have to have brain free, right?
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- Also, oh I forgot to mention,
for the leaders when you’re doing this; - 02:42
- ..on the second forward step you might ask the question,
"Why doesn’t she cross?" - 02:46
- And that would be a very smart question, right?
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- The first two steps are exactly like
the traditional eight count basic. - 02:50
- And the answer is because I block her.
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- So, we'll go side forward, forward.
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- And right here I’m putting my left foot right,
to the immediate side of her left foot... - 02:59
- ..so that she can't draw it back.
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- And I go straight to her instead of outside.
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- So that’s how she knows not to cross.
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- From a different angle, right there.
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- So you see my foot is immediately in front
and that keeps her from crossing. - 03:17
- So one more time.
