[Tango-L] Sycopation problem ?

[Melroy]

Hey Jake, I don't really have a problem with syncopation. 
Its just more fun to do it than to write (or read) about. 

And none of us are going to transcribe, accurately, some little book of
traspie variations that others can use for study and practice.      Are we? 
(ooh that's a thought).

Anyway  .......   Syncopation is the stressing of normally un-stressed beats
in a bar.

For example: a bar of 4/4 would be 1 2 3 4, with 2 and 4 normally
un-stressed. 
If they were this could be called syncopated. 

Between beats 1 and 2, (or 2&3, 3&4, 4&1 etc), if you count 1 e and a 2  
Any of the beats on   e  or  and  or  a  could be stressed (or tapped as we
are talking dance) and this would be syncopation.

If you tap just ever so slightly before of after the beat this is also
syncopation (harder to annotate).
If you tap along on the stressed beats and all of a sudden don't tap one,
just catch your foot in the air for that one, and then continue, that's also
syncopation.

Oh and Jake, 'superimposed patterns' sounds more like polyrhythm, playing
(or dancing), for example, a measure of say three even beats over a bar of
four even beats. Or 7 over 3.
Or 11 over 17 if you're Frank Zappa.

Sometimes Tango (dance etc) teachers use musical terms that are not really
accurate for what they are trying to explain. However we usually know what
they mean don't we? 
Especially if they show us.
I can read music, but I prefer not to think about dancing in terms of
crotchets and semi-quavers etc.
Its not necessary.