Original Message 1/5                 Date: 09-Mar-00  @  11:43 PM   -   some latin drum beats

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what are some latin drum grooves?

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Message 2/5                 Date: 10-Mar-00  @  10:50 AM   -   RE: some latin drum beats

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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.

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Message 3/5                 Date: 18-Mar-00  @  07:31 PM   -   RE: some latin drum beats

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i would like to know some latin grooves done with the congas, or maracas, etc. it is not the main rythem of the song, but the drums you would hear in the background... peace

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Message 4/5                 Date: 19-Mar-00  @  08:32 PM   -   RE: some latin drum beats

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The thing is, the majority of that stuff really isn't all that cool unless you put it into context, and really unerstand how it works within a groove, you know? Before just trying to get the little bits and pieces, try listening to a bunch of good latin music. Try to find an album called 'Cachao'. Study that, and the way all of the drums and boxes, and bass all work together, and all of the little pieces start to make sense. See one of the keys is the swing, and you can't swing without the rest of the music there to swing with. Check it out. You'll see exactly what I mean. Good luck.

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PS, anything Cachao (aka Israel Lopez) has done is worth a listen. He and his brother Orestes, founded Mambo back in the day.

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Message 5/5                 Date: 20-Mar-00  @  04:16 PM   -   RE: some latin drum beats

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Yeah, it's kind of like asking what spices are in Mexican food without telling us which dish you're preparing. Really, the best thing you could do is get yourself a cheap little set of bongos and one of those LP bead filled eggs, loop your music and just groove along with it. Kind of fill in the cracks (but not all the cracks unless you wanna smother it). It's pretty basic and it ain't that hard.

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