How To Do The Luis Conte Tumbao 

Have to love your description on Luis Contes Slaps, had me(LOL) too much Bro.

I enjoyed the video even before listening to the music!

Very cool tumbao! Thanks Luis Conte and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm learning a lot with you and it's very generous that you take all this time for us. Wow!

Eric, can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Very personable, fun, inspirational, etc. I've learned a ton from you so far. Thank you for caring and sharing brother! -Ray

Woooo! U can be a Proffessor!! Thank U so much! The Background if Your Videos are so interesting and U have got a Great Ability to Express Urself through Words.

Your playing is super clean and crisp.

Yes sir!!!!!!!!

Conte is a great ambassador of afro cuban rhythms.

Very nice,

Eric! You're passion for these drums is infectious my man! I appreciate all your efforts! And I love how you pick out your inspirational parts of other percussionist solos, or sections of a song where you hear a pattern or rhythm that catches your attention. I'm the same exact way. I hear a certain section of a song that I like, and I listen to it over and over and over again! Trying to master that particular percussionists way that he played that part in that song. And I know you get a lot of suggestions, and I'm not trying to throw another one onto your plate. But, if you feel so inclined I think that it would be cool for you to do one of your videos during the week of how Eric Perez likes to play. And a Eric Perez solo. So maybe, one day, someone else could say I'm going to show you this Eric Perez Tumbao, or this Eric Perez, Guan, guan co, that I heard him do! And I don't think it would be selfish for you to do something like that. I think you've pretty much proved that you are a student and a lover of these drums. And showing us, your style, and how you like to get down, is alright with me my man!

okay. love it . but he is an incredible technical talent. why do people who play with groove and taste are not given credit for technique. this guy has both. solos all over the youtube. Luis does it all. Giovanni plays ALL instruments . all. he is a magnificient shekere and udu player. check out his videos with Gadd for evidence. these guys ALL have chops for days! period. Its only one part of the high level musicianship which the general public barely or never will understand their depth. Both Luis and Phil Collins are both south paw. So Luis has both prodigious technique and musicianship combined period. not one or the other. Pedrito is an unbelievable bata and cajon player and singer as well. The key here is melody. They all sing. A percussionist must sing what he plays and sing the melodies which will always connect the rhythm to melodic cadence in tasteful and musical ways. Ever notice that when Luis , Pederito, Giovanni play or solo they ALWAYS sing. they know tunes. not just patterns.

Luis Conte is so amazing I always have admired his playing! You need to try chillout lounge, deep house lounge & Latin hip hop yeah just things I just enjoy playing bongos & congas with.

Bro that's some nice playing but at least from the lessons I've taken from Luis his tumbao is the same tumbao you hear everywhere else. It's a nice rhythm you play but I'm not so sure that's a tumbao cool though it is. And you're right he's a very humble guy, funny and loaded with stories from being in the business and the various factors that shaped his playing. My lessons from him have taught me a lot more than percussion technique. I always have a million questions too. Lol.

Hi Eric, como estás chamo? I'm from Venezuela and there is The super band: "GUACO" (I don't know if ya listen to them), and his conga player is Wladimir Quintero (@vladitimba). This dude had a peculiar style in his performance of the tumbaos, wich are very his own. What will be your impresions of his way of play? Saludos pana!

Bro, you are working on your comedy chops at the same time !!!

Great work Eric. Don’t forget to count things in. We need to know where beat one is. I kept hearing it in a different place. My brain is old!!

Hello mr Eric Perez thank you so much for all your breakdowns they hav been very helpful and insightful.im from Cameroun I’m a drummer but I’m very interested in Latin percussions because central Africa & west Africa are root history of Afrocuba music and Latin America music. but its sad that we as Central Africans and west Africans do not know how to play our evolutionary sound which is Latin America music. Pls can I have your email

Hi Eric! Thinking of getting some congas... but was thinking it was hard to learn but I’ve been lookin at some of your post and man you make it look good bro!! Awesome so with that I will go ahead and get some congas. Thinking of the MEINL headliners 11-12 sunburst conga set or the Luis conte set ..What do you think is this a good place to start and which one should I purchase.

Thanks for all Eric , for sharing , for spend your Time for us .just one question : Where do you get your Nices T-shirts with congas stuffs printed on them. David from France 🇫🇷

gotta say man, I looooove Luis Conte and I love Phil Collins and the combo of those three (with Chester Thompson) is heavenly. But then you come along and break down this shit? fml you're amazing pal

Yeah - buttery tumbao! Luis Conte really is an excellent musician - and person. THANKS for breaking it down!

Love LC's signature shakers my Meinl. Pretty much a Mozambique tumbao. Is that a mule-skin on your conga? Sounds really nice, nicely played by you!

Hey EricComo estas .? Even though I came across your videos likinda late . I have learned a lot , And I thank you for it.. also your biography breakdowns are insightful.. Keep it up .. Thanx a conga lot.. be blessed always.. gracias hermano..

Muy bueno Eric como todo lo suyo una consulta ese ritmo que llaman rumba abierta tienes algún video ya echo soy seguidor de tu canal pero no lo e visto y me gustaría si pudieras un saludo desde Uruguay Gustavo Pérez es mi nombre y eternamente agradecido por tu aporte ayuda mucho a los que no tenemos la economía tomar clases

Ese tumbao tiene un toque de mozambique. Excelente. Gracias, mis estimado Eric conguero.

Saludos hermano!!! en lo que puedas sube un vídeo con el patrón de 6x8 tocado por Ray Barretto & Poncho Sanchez

Saludos amigo, gracias por sus vídeos son de gran ayuda para el aprendizaje, tengo una pregunta en que estilo de música se puede usar este tumbao

Can u teach how to tune. Mean how much to Canga, Quinto and Tumbadora

You are so cool! always gets me fired up watching your videos .

Muito bom!!! parabéns pelo seu trabalho magnífico!!!

Tremendo bro...it's thoooose simple thingssss...👍👍👍

Eric, another excellent break down. Luis Conte is one awesome percussionist, very versatile. As a lefty I really like to see his videos since I can follow him a bit better. Not many lefty congueros, although Giovanni is lefty but he is more ambidextrous. Anyway keep up the great work Bro!

Those congas sound nice! How much for something like that?

Thank You Eric .. Salamz From Malaysia

Love it!!!!! Great lesson! For some reason when I heard this tumbao, the song Quimbara by Celia Cruz - popped in my head.

and thanks for pointing out 'ghost notes' being so important, they keep the subdivision or internal pulse going in the body rather than people going kind of stiff between played notes which is way too common. I think you talked about accents being important, they can be all-important as well as the ability to control their volume. Accent as in spoken/sung language gives so much more meaning and in a big way can contribute to the 'swing' of things with just that and the ergonomic energies imparted can physically impel or move notes one way or the other in time giving the 'sticking' of a stroke combined with accents supreme importance in musicality and tastyness!

There’s a dislike?! I mean, seriously a dislike?! What is wrong with that viewer?!

That tumbao is a variation of the Samba rhythm.

In fact Erik, you are the best ....

sounds better the slower it's played!

Coño! Q duro es este pana. Algunos movimientos de esas variaciones q puedas subir estaría genial brother estan brutales. Gracias!!!

Slightly unrelated, but watching your videos every week really made me want new heads, so I thought to replace all 5 heads. I'm in the process now, but was disappointed in the lack of discounts for large orders so I'm going to shrink it to 3. (I know it's not the amount but the feeling of getting a deal was missing). Since you promote Manito can you get coupon codes for us? :)

That conga sond is perfect !

Hey man been watching your videos really dig your post nice playing and teaching, keep up the good work...

I still wating for Pedrito Martinez.

Puro encendio chamaco gracias

Hi Alex J. rosen here 63 y.o. from the South Shore Massachusetts. Started playing at 17 years old and have been playing ever since congas that is so listen to a lot of Santana excetera to get started but the funny thing is I never understood the word tumbao till just a few years ago. Always played my version of it slap on 3 + 7 + 8 kind of ghost note the rest basically what I'm saying is I've been playing for over 40 years without really understanding my instrument and you now have taken me over that hump to become more one with my instrument thank you so much for that your videos are amazing I'm sure your help so many but I'll tell you this you brought on a new respect that I now have with my instrument thank you so much for that I guess it was just my version of it that I played which was okay because it was presented with style but now you brought me over to the other side thank you so much

hello from France!! il really like this tumbao but: where is the one ?? it works (it seems) with the one on the first open slap (your right hand) am i in the good way??? thanks again for your great job marco.

Thanks for the lesson, It's a great resource. To me it seems like you start to teach the groove on "4 and" is this correct? I makes it more tricky to learn and get the right feel. I wish you would start on the 1. Cheers

Tremendo! Gracias Eric.

I'm really enjoying you and learning a awful lot please keep up the good work your doing my brother we need you. Thank you very mr.perez

Where you from

You funny man

Wow, that's an out-there one! Cool! I love how it has a real sense of cascara inside the groove too.

Oh, so tasty!