[Tango-L] syncopation

[Sebastian Arce]

Let's take a 2/4 messurement, this means that the lenght of each messure 
will be 2 'black notes' (I don't know if this is the right transaltion, in 
Spanish we call them 'negras') or equivalent.

Then, we have 2 main beats per messure, being 1 'the strong beat' and 2 'the 
weak' beat.
#Ex: 3 messures
1,2,1,2,1,2

If you add one rhythmical accentuation of that 'empty tempo' represented by 
"," you get sincopations
#Ex: 3 messures with syncopations
1and2and1and2and1and2

Being on this last example 'and' the syncopas

In tango the most classical acompaniamientos in sincopa are what tango 
musicians call the "YUM_BA" which is the sincopa that follows the strong 
beat or its opposite "BA-YUM"... more explicit will be to say: in a 4 beat 
structure, YUMBA: 1and2,3,4,1and2,3,4,1and,2,3,4 being "1 and" the 
accentuated beats//OR// BAYUM: 
and1,2,3,4and1,2,3,4and1,2,3,4and1,2,3,4and... being "and 1" the accentuated 
beats.

Hope this helps guys,
S.Arce



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Bruno Romero" <romerob at telusplanet.net>
To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] syncopation
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:50:31 -0600

Parallel rhythm,

Analogy, 2 or 3 people clapping with their hands. Let's say these people
begin at the time clapping at the rate of a heart beat. Then you have the
2nd person vary the rhythm by clapping sets of 4 notes. Then, the third
person follows skipping every other note in the set of 4 notes, and so on.
You will have parallel rhythms to the original hand clapping.

Bruno


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