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Subject: some latin drum beats
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Message 2/5 10-Mar-00 @ 10:50 AM - RE: some latin drum beats
Oh, that's a can o' worms there. There are many styles -- mambo, rhumba, cha-cha, samba, bolero, merengue, bossa nova, calypso, tango ... More traditional Latin styles are usually based on individual percussion instruments playing varied locking patterns rather than a drummer sitting behind a kit. The clave line is generally the time keeper. Other lines vary over that. Instrumentation can consist of timbales, congas, guiros, cowbells, maracas, cabasas, etc. This midi file (could never show the all the variations on the grid) uses repeating kick (C1), timbale (F3) and clave (D#4) lines with 12 variations on the cowbell (F4) line, each 4 bars each. You could substitute a woodblock or a sidestick/rimshot for the cowbell. There's no accents in the file, as those can vary from measure to measure to make it move. Also it's swung slightly for feel, quantize to eighths if you want to see it on a grid. You can run it fairly fast, 180 bpm seemed OK last night.
Message 3/5 18-Mar-00 @ 07:31 PM - RE: some latin drum beats
Message 4/5 19-Mar-00 @ 08:32 PM - RE: some latin drum beats
Ape
PS, anything Cachao (aka Israel Lopez) has done is worth a listen. He and his brother Orestes, founded Mambo back in the day.
Message 5/5 20-Mar-00 @ 04:16 PM - RE: some latin drum beats
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