Tanda

Overview

A tanda is a set of pieces of music, usually between three or five, that is played during a milonga. Most common the music is a tango, a milonga or a vals. Between two tandas a cortina might be played.

One way of arranging the music could be like the following:

1. four tangos - cortina
2. three milongas - cortina
3. four tangos - cortina
4. three vals - cortina

This could be notated as T4-M3-T4-V3.

Tandas can be arranged by orchestra, by lyrics, by time of recording, by "feel" of the music. In a tanda of tango it is common to play only music of one orchestra.

Sometimes also non-tango tandas are played, like Rock n roll, Cumbia, Chacarera.

schemes

• T-T-M-T-T-V
  • T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3 ( 3 songs each )
    • Fredi Lienhardt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4589
    • Tobias Conradi (User:Tobiasco/tandas, sometimes 2 for real non-tango, i.e. Salsa)
    • Chris Jordan
    • Ricardo ??? (Argentino, lived in Ruhrgebiet, now in Berlin)
    • Steve Morrall (mostly)
    • Njaal Bendixen (except for one neo tanda)
    • Don Juan - Italy
    • Wayne Jacobsen - if I sub an Alternative tanda it's A2
  • T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3-T3-T3-A
    • Bob Barnes T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3-T3-T3-A(1or2), where "A(1or2)" means one or two alternative/electro/swing/salsa tunes.
  • T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V3 ( 4 songs for tango, 3 songs for vals and milonga)
    • Tine Herreman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4586 , but also T4-V3-T4-M3
    • Leonardo Beker-Gomez (mostly this scheme)
    • Peter Wenger
    • Ben Bogart (mostly, or I [Ben] conceive it as T4-T4-V3-T4-T4-M3), but certain venues or events lend themselves more to T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3.
    • Ira Goldstein
  • T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4
    • Miguel Jahnel: in Buenos Aires I use the traditionally structure T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4 with cortinas and aditionally the intermediate tanda with cumbias, rock and/or Foxtrots. In Germany T5-M3-T5-V3
    • Victor Hugo Sanchez
  • T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V4 ( 4 songs, except milonga: 3 songs)
    • Thorsten Zörner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/5052
    • Sabah Chammas
    • Tom Stermitz T4-T4-V4-T4-T4-M3 , A longer evening: T5-T5-V4-T5-T5-M3, a house party: T3-V3-T3-T3-M2 (approximately)
  • unknowkn or varying length (review at another time)
    • Stephen Brown : DJing at local milongas, I always play cortinas and mostly adhere to the cycle T4-T4-V3-4-T4-T4-M3. The length of the vals tanda depends on how many good valses fit with the sound of the tanda. For festivals, I always play cortinas and use tandas of 4 for valses and milongas; T4, T4, V4, T4, T4, M4. For a tanda of tango fusion or electro tango, I usually play T3 because the individual pieces of music are longer.
    • Dubravko Kakarigi : I also use the T-T-M-T-T-V format with varied number of songs per tanda. I mostly aim at tango tandas of around 10-11 min and M&V tandas with at most three songs/tanda.
• T-M-T-V
  • T5-M3-T5-V3
    • Miguel Jahnel in Germany without cortinas but when I see that the dancer wants more tangos I change the structure to T6-M3-T6-V3 without cortinas. In BsAs T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4
  • T4-V3-T4-M3
    • Tine Herreman - I use 4T-3V-4T-3M the first hour to prime the party, then I add an additional 4T in there for the bulk of the evening (doing either 4T-4T-3V-4T-3M or 4T-3V-4T-4T-3M ), and I end up the last hour doing 4T-4T-3V-4T-4T-3M.
• T-T-T-M-T-V reported at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4588

Links

• http://www.cyber-tango.com/art/tanda.html