
Your first Mambo pattern with “Martillo”. Giovanni combines a serie of beats: Hembra, martillo, fingers, half palm and ghost to complete this pattern. Notice the type of accentuation and the placement of the Hembra (female) on the fourth beat.
Commentary:
Now, we have the Mambo, like for the Mambo era, and that was a faster movement, a great style, that was a great style, a great era. Like I mentioned before, great, great Bongo players, Jose Manual, Mario Kendo, Candido, Armando Peraza, Jack Costanzo, I mean, a great, great, great era, Ray Romero… That was a good, good, good moment to analyze that kind of style, and that was fast, done like this, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4,…