From: Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires

Tip 4: Listen to music from orchestras of the Golden Era. Those recordings have the cadence that you need to incorporate into your moves. Get to know the songs and become familiar with them. 

Your goal with learning to dance Argentine Tango is to become a milonguero or milonguero, this is: a person to which dancing Argentine Tango is the spinal cord of his or her life.

You will regularly go to milongas, preferable in Buenos Aires, to the milongas that care about the “codigos”, the nuances in the social aspects of Argentine Tango which enhance and promote the excellence of the dance, below which the quality level makes whatever the people present at that gathering is doing not to be Argentine Tango, independently of what they believe they are doing there.

In the milongas, where quality dancing is the standard, a common element is the music. If you know the music very well, you will be at home.

Develop your own library of Argentine Tango music and create your own playlists, ordering the songs by orchestra, by date of recording, by musicians integrated into these orchestras, by singers, by rhythm, etc. A good exercise is to create a playlist for a milonga. This will challenge you to listen to, acquire, and research each song.