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No description. Commentary: Welcome to the Virtual Drummer School. I feel very pleased to be here with all of you guys and to talk about rhythm and drumming, and specially about Afro-Cuban music which has the same subdivisions, for example, as American
In this exercise Horacio shows you how to combine the binary and ternary figures and how to sing on them. In the first exercise sing on sixteenth notes, in the second on eighth triplet notes. This kind of lessons are essential to understand all the following e
Here you will find a small introduction of how the Bembé Clave is applied in 6/8 and which is its origin. Commentary: Once we have very clear these subdivisions, then we will get into the study of the “Clave” itself. The Clave, as we said b
This is one of the first steps to understand the evolution of the Bembé Clave to the Son Clave. Horacio works with a very low metronome speed (quarter note at 60) so that its understanding is easier Commentary: Then, we have the Son Clave that is born
Horacio explains how to understand and play the Clave in 2:3, with a very slow exercise so you can see the situation inside the bar. Commentary: This Clave in particular, has also the peculiarity that it can start on the third beat, so it is what is cal
Horacio explains how to understand and to play the Son Clave in 3:2, with a very slow exercise so you can see the situation inside the bar. Commentary: Then we are going to have the Son Clave with the binary subdivision using exactly the same pulse as w
In this group of exercises you will work with your two hands to reach independence (it is important that you sing the subdivisions like Horacio does). Right hand plays the Clave in the Wood Block and left hand will play each one of the 16 Sixteenth notes. In t
In this group of exercises you will work with your two hands to reach independence (it is important that you sing the subdivisions like Horacio does). Your right hand plays the Clave in the Wood Block, the left hand will play each one of the 16 Sixteenth notes
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