South America

Tango on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Argentine tango loves the minor and its dominant: D minor, G minor, A7. The guitar plays marcato, four short, accented chords a bar, the first and third stronger. The silences between the strokes count as much as the chords.

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The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In D minor · 116 BPM
  • Dm
    D minor××231
  • Gm
    G minor3fr134
  • A7
    A 7×12

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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  • strum down
  • down, cut short

From the same world

From Brazil to Argentina and Colombia, rhythms where the guitar does it all: the bass with the thumb, the chords with the fingers, and syncopation.