This blog is dedicated to the idea that learning and playing guitar should be as fun as possible. It is a fine read if you are starting to learn guitar from scratch and if you tend to search for ways to be more creative.
Learn guitar and have fun too.
For anyone out there who is intimidated by guitar, starting it from scratch, or trying it out, I hear you.
Do you recognize the man in this photo? It's me. The woman I am dancing with is Andrea. She is one of the best Argentine Tango dancers I have met. I'll never understand why she lets me dance with her, or for that matter why I am dancing with her in a huge theater (see color photo). But like everyone who comes to guitar to try and play it, I want to get over feeling intimidated. I have to keep learning to dance because I choose to dance, even in huge scary theaters like this. Beginning anything ain't easy, but the sooner we begin the more fun we can have.
Just so you know, you are not alone! We all have something to learn.
There was this one Milonga I went to where I saw people dancing to the Scorpions. I never thought I'd be the one to say it, but there is something a bit weird about dancing to "Hurricane." This doesn't mean that we ought to stay away from seeing how tango fits or translates to other music.
That said, my jaw dropped last Saturday night when dance partners Carlos Cañedo and Anais Haven danced to a waltzy Black Heart Procession song. Wow! Really? Seriously? I couldn't believe that Tango dancers even knew about that band!
Carlos and Anais danced the hell out of that song. In addition, it's really refreshing to me when Tango dancers are nice, down-to-earth, and approachable. I feel like I would make a fool out of myself if I went up and talked to dancers as good as they are (maybe because I enjoy dancing and am not terribly good at it). However, I gathered up my nerve, and went up to them later on to pester them about their song choices. They were quite awesome about it. I'm going to take a private tango lesson with them the next time they come to Austin.
Here is a YouTube video of them dancing to a freaking Fugazi song. That's right: FUGAZI. Carlos and Anais, I have a request: Can you dance to Radiohead's "Morning Bell," the version off of Amnesiac? I'll take whatever I can get though. Carlos Cañedo's tango website address is at the bottom of this post.
http://www.thetangocompany.com
This blog is dedicated to the idea that learning and playing guitar should be as fun as possible. It is a fine read if you are starting to learn guitar from scratch and if you tend to search for ways to be more creative.
This blog is dedicated to the idea that learning and playing guitar should be as fun as possible. It is a fine read if you are starting to learn guitar from scratch and if you tend to search for ways to be more creative.
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