🪗 Bandoneón Exercise (initial insights):
- The piece has a tango/modern milonga feeling.
- It uses chromatic movement and repetitive pulse-based phrasing.
- There is a use of staccato and portato articulation common in bandoneón phrasing.
- The piece seems to alternate between minor and ambiguous modal structures.
🎼 Bandoneón Motif: “Cheto Pulse”
You can use this as intro motif or as a recurring theme.
Notation (in C minor, can transpose to suit):
Time: 4/4
Tempo: ♩ = 92
Key: C minor
RH:
| G4 A♭4 G4 - | E♭4 F4 G4 - | G4 A♭4 B♭4 - | G4 - - - |
LH (Bass Rhythm):
| C2 - G2 - | C2 - G2 - | C2 - G2 - | C2 - - - |
Articulation:
- RH is marcato/staccato on first beat
- LH is legato-tango feel, root and fifth pulse
Dynamics:
- Start mf, crescendo to f in bar 3🎵 Description:
This motif balances urban elegance with a milonguero attitude.
Some following up exercises:
- Sequencing up a minor third
- Inverting the RH melody
- Expanding with chromatic tension
- Shifting to relative major or a Neapolitan variant (e.g., D♭ major)
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