How to play cuban rhythms
Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 3:25 pm
Fernando Aramis is a cuban artist living in Brazil (if I remember well) and he is teaching music.
This video is teaching the basis of the cuban son for the guitar. What make me to post it here is because he show correctly the rhythm of that kind of music. Such rhythms with an emphasis on the second and forth beats are very common in latin america, in reggae, african music and other genres of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3if5ME ... ME5gGo&t=5
That gui have other videos, but this one is the most important because he explain the basis in it. The picking rhythm can take time to play right at decent speed, but when you get used to it, it is really fun to play. You can play a lot of different chords on it, and you can change the chords after 4 beats, use 2 chords into a mesure, or a succession of 3 chords of 2 beats in the middle of 4 beats chords song. That last combination is a little bit harder to play, but the result is very fun because the chords change will turn from beat 4 to beat 2, and from beat 2 to beat 4 with the 3 chords succession, resulting into a typical cuban music effect, which you will be able to play only with one instrument like guitar or piano. From my experience, it will be easier if you begin to experiment with different rhythmic chords successions from the beginning.
This video is teaching the basis of the cuban son for the guitar. What make me to post it here is because he show correctly the rhythm of that kind of music. Such rhythms with an emphasis on the second and forth beats are very common in latin america, in reggae, african music and other genres of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3if5ME ... ME5gGo&t=5
That gui have other videos, but this one is the most important because he explain the basis in it. The picking rhythm can take time to play right at decent speed, but when you get used to it, it is really fun to play. You can play a lot of different chords on it, and you can change the chords after 4 beats, use 2 chords into a mesure, or a succession of 3 chords of 2 beats in the middle of 4 beats chords song. That last combination is a little bit harder to play, but the result is very fun because the chords change will turn from beat 4 to beat 2, and from beat 2 to beat 4 with the 3 chords succession, resulting into a typical cuban music effect, which you will be able to play only with one instrument like guitar or piano. From my experience, it will be easier if you begin to experiment with different rhythmic chords successions from the beginning.