- Artist Name:
- Joe Powers
- Song Title:
- El Choclo
- Album Title:
- Amor de Tango
- Artist Website:
- http://www.joepowers.com/
(From the website): International harmonica sensation,
Joe Powers is taking his instrument to new heights with his energetic and engaging performances that cover a full spectrum of musical genres.
- 00:04
- Musicality: here are two different ways.
- 00:32
- Could you see the difference?
- 00:34
- The difference was, in the first one...
- 00:37
- ..I really took my time and
I was very even tempoed.
- 00:40
- If you listen to the music -
- 00:41
- [Hums]
- 00:45
- So it's really this beautiful sense of time.
- 00:47
- So you can go - in your step, you can go;
- 00:50
- [Hums]
- 00:54
- There’s no rush.
- 00:56
- That was the first way.
- 00:57
- The second way it was getting
a little more strident.
- 01:00
- And so when it got more strident
I too got more strident...
- 01:02
- and I especially emphasized the landing.
- 01:05
- So I went...
- 01:07
- So I’m going to voice it so you can hear
what I was dancing to before.
- 01:10
- [Hums]
- 01:18
- Right, so it was more strident
so I could make the dancing more strident.
- 01:20
- We could both make the dancing more strident.
- 01:22
- In this case, the quality of our landing,
the accent of the arrival.
- 01:26
- So that’s one way you can be musical.
- 01:27
- You can listen to the music and
then you can say -
- 01:30
- ..not necessarily - maybe you’re changing your timing...
- 01:32
- ..doing a quick, quick, slow,
instead of a slow, slow, slow.
- 01:36
- So you can use different rhythms.
That’s your prerogative as the leader.
- 01:39
- Let’s show them quick, quick, slow.
- 01:41
- So here’s slow, a quick, quick, slow...
- 01:45
- ..slow, a quick, quick slow...
- 01:49
- ..slow, a quick, quick slow.
- 01:52
- So you see the rhythm changes.
Instead of...
- 01:57
- ..slow, slow, slow, slow.
- 02:01
- And just to define; a quick in this instance
is a single beat of music...
- 02:05
- ..and a slow is two beats.
- 02:07
- But anyway you could do this,either accenting
what you hear in the music...
- 02:11
- ..with the quality of your movement...
- 02:12
- ..where the music has maybe a harder edge on the landing
or something like that.
- 02:15
- You get there faster but then
you take more time...
- 02:18
- ..or you can do it by changing your rhythm.
- 02:20
- That’s part one right;
how you listen to the music actively.
- 02:23
- But there is a second thing,
a comment I would like to make.
- 02:26
- And that’s that as you do this...
- 02:32
- ..dance, don’t move until you must.
- 02:34
- So a lot of people,
they move too fast.
- 02:37
- We talk about letting the music
fill us up...
- 02:39
- and then we move.
- 02:40
- And we say this and everybody always says,
“Yes, they understand.”
- 02:43
- And then they rush off.
- 02:45
- Yes, or at least, even if they don’t feel like they’re rushing,
it’s still too fast.
- 02:49
- So if we’re listening to this music right now, I go -
- 02:52
- [Hums]
- 02:55
- And now I feel it rising up,
and I feel it rising up...
- 02:58
- ..and I want to move in.
- 02:59
- Don’t yet. Listen more,
listen more.
- 03:02
- D: Until you...
N: And you hold...
- 03:04
- N: ..until you must move.
D: Yes, must.
- 03:07
- And then you move.
- 03:09
- There’s a supporting clip here
where we link to a clip of Itzhak Perlman...
- 03:14
- ..and he talks about this gypsy music.
- 03:16
- And it’s the same with tango.
- 03:18
- It’s full of all of this energy...
- 03:22
- ..and you build it and you build it
and then finally you move.
