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I will be discussing Music notation , Latin styles and much more !!So stay tuned folks
It all begins with the Clave (pronounce "kla veh")The clave is an ancient African beat that gives the celular structure to a particular drum beat, it comes from Nigeria and Congo, we also inherited a variety of hand held percussive instruments such as :Yembe drums (conga like drum ), sencerro (cow bell)guiro (scraper),palitos (wooden sticks)and other instruments.The African tribes give us an inmense variety of ryhtms,so vast that harmony and melodies become a second place event.The aboriginies of South America had only Pentatonic scales ,when extra notes are added it become richer in melodies and harmonics,and the polirytms added a flavour that has trascended to today modern Latin style.We may say that our music was born out of Euro-African-American marriage.We have the harmonically rich Samba,the polyrytms power of a Salsa emsamble,the sensibility of the melodic Tango.the web of Cultures,religion,and idiosincracies continues and thus our music keeps evolving !!
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