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Hola Edgardo! Siempre me ha interesado el Candombe! Mi nombre es Rolando y vivo en Gotemburgo, conozco a tu hermano y me ha comentado tu habilidad en los tambores! Voy a estudiar este ritmo y otros con tus indicaciones. Un abrazo y vida próspera!
Don’t underestimate the difficulty of play the guiro. I’ve been trying to get up to some of the speed he shows here and I can’t do it after a couple of weeks of really practicing. I can play cleanly to slower salsa but on songs that are much faster I fall apart.
Thank you so much for making this video. This is a rhythm that I've wanted to learn, but I didn't know the name of it. A variation of it is played on one of my favorite records, 'Mambo Sinuendo' by Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder. I tried to learn it from the record but I couldn't get it. Your video made it easy and fun to learn!
So what's interesting is that they had a version of this instrument before the introduction of the Calabash Gourd (African Origin), one of humanities longest domesticated vegetable.
Fantástico máster! Gracias Papi! A practicar! Y como afinar las congas con la llave es algo que no termino de aprender del todo! Hay diferentes notas a las cuales se puede ajustar?
I watched this video intently (and I will again and again). Thank you for your insight on Facebook to my question, and for your knowledge that you are sharing. You make me a better (aspiring) musician. - Gerry V.
The Africans by the time brought as slaves to America, they dominate absolutelly all the sounds and ritms, in a way that (without reading music) they create new instruments to bring those ritms and sound alive in the diferent countries they were taken: energetic Venesuela, Uruguay, Brazil, Cuba, etc
I learned to play the clave rhythm on a cowbell. The 6/8 on an iron ago-go, with the 1 on the lower bell. This was for basic African rhythms played on conga/djembe. Later I learned rhumba clave rhythm. That’s was in the mid 90’s. Our instructor taught us that if we choose to play cowbell or clave we have to be ON IT, as far as keeping time. Not only to keep the time for the musicians, also because it is loud. Great video. They are some sad sticks being sold as ‘clave’. No punch, too small. Old rosewood ones are the best!!!
