- Artist Name:
- Carlos di Sarli
- Song Title:
- Bahía Blanca
- Album Title:
- RCA Victor 100 Años - Carlos di Sarli
(Paraphrased from todotango.com): He, as nobody else, knew how to combine the rhythmic cadence of tango with a harmonic structure, apparently simple, but full of nuances and subtleties.
- 00:05
- And you'll start to notice a pattern. And the pattern is, it goes something like this:
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- The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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- And, earlier on, we said, "You can do anything at anywhere."
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- And then, in a later chapter, as you got more advanced, we said, "You can do anything at anywhere."
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- And now, as you're more advanced yet, we're saying, "You can do anything at anywhere."
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- And, eventually, you're going to say to me, "David, I know what you're going to talk about." And you'll be right.
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- So, in this chapter, we're going to take all these previous chapters, and show you how...
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- As we were at the beginning of this right angle place, where I could step side, and she could step forward,
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- We can do any one of the things we've done before.
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- And I want you to see how, at that one moment, you have so much choice.
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- And, for the ladies,
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- Often, ladies will say things like, and it'll be half true, ladies will say things like,
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- "I don't need to know that, I just need to follow."
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- And there's some truth to that, but at the same time,...
- 00:58
- So, one thing, is that you need to have good technique, and we'll have a bunch of chapters on good technique,
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- But you also have to know it's possible.
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- So, often I'll lead women in things and they won't expect it.
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- I'll do this.
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- And they won't expect, "What, you want me to do this?"
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- No, maybe not that, that's not tango, but...
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- As we do this, I want you to look at that one spot and see how's there so many possibilities,
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- And if the guy takes you in a strange place, maybe that strange place will lead to a wonderful thing.
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- And so, you need to get it in your body to go in whatever direction, even a strange direction.
- 01:30
- And what's more, if you're standing on the ball of one foot, forgive me for being wordy,
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- If you're standing on the ball of one foot, you can...
- 01:38
- Have lots of choice, and this is a choice, that...
- 01:42
- That's easy to forget.
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- Right? So as you doing this, the instinct is to stand on the foot,
- 01:47
- And you'll... have a preference for a place, and so when you go to that place - that's easy.
- 01:52
- So, for example, if I'm standing like this, I'm sort of back weighted. It's easy for me to fall backwards. But it's very hard for me to go forwards.
- 01:59
- And so, when we say, we want you to be able to do all these different things, that forces you to neutral.
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- That forces you to a neutral place.
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- So that you can go forward, or back, or side, or pivot.
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- And it's this neutral place where you want to live.
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- That was really good.
- 02:17
- So, for example, we have...
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- Side, he changes, she pivots, that's our introduction to get into this position.
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- And from here, you can do a lot of things. Right, so I could go...
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- Rock, and no, I changed my mind. I could rock side,
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- I could go rock this other way.
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- If I went over there, that would be the beginning of a forward ocho, but instead of that, I can pivot her the other way.
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- And then we could go into back ocho.
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- I could step that side but deliberately step smaller,
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- So it turns.
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- So, at that one place, you have so many choices.
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- And I never know what he's going to do.
- 02:58
- And, likewise, if we're standing on this foot, you have all those same choices.
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- I could rock here, I could rock... here.
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- We could step there having her go further than me.
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- I could pivot her, and take her to forward ocho.
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- And so, those were the combinations that we showed you earlier. And, what I want you to do right now
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- Is, either in your mind, or with your partner, one of the two,
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- Slowly go over each one of these possibilities on each leg.
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- And then do it repeatedly, because you actually have to practice this, and do it yourself, for it to internalize.
