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Which Latin Rhythm is this?


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It's not really a clave pattern.

 

It sounds more like something Brazilian to me, but it is generic enough to be applicable in many different styles.

 

That's what I think, anyway.

 

 

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Actually the 3-side of a typical clave would be [1] 2 3 [4] 5 6 [7] 8

 

Or, less confusingly (to me anyway), emphasis on 1, and-of-2, and 4. What Jazz+ posted is emphasis on 1, and-of-2, and and-of-3. Dunno what that is. :idk

 

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Looks like accents I use in a Forro tune I've written ... my understanding is that it's the first half of a "zabumba" drum pattern. The Zabumba, as well as the styles of music it is used in, including Forro, are from Northeastern Brazil. Although it's a drum pattern, I use it as the rhythm of the bass line in sections of the forro I wrote (the entire 2-bar rhythm, not just the first half shown here). I hope this helps! So where did you hear this, Jazz+?

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I believe it is a tresillo.

two dotted quarters followed by a quarter.

 

It's not that, it's a dotted quarter followed by two quarters

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Now what if you shift it a beat ahead like salsa, Michele Camilo plays this in his syncopated left hand stride on "Blue Bossa"

 

| 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 | 1 [2] 3 [4] 5 6 [7] 8 |

 

Root on the 4 , voicing on the "+" of 1 and then a pickup bass note on the "+" of 2

 

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I REMEMBERED! There's a Kneebody tune called "You Have One Unheard Message" that uses this rhythm:

 

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I don't know that I've ever heard this pattern anywhere else, at least as part of a bonafide ethnic style of music.

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The short answer: it's not really a particular latin rhythm.

 

The longer answer:

Michelle, wow now that you mention it I have heard that on Zabumba, but... I don't think it's the standard pattern:

[video:youtube]QzSaG2GHxpM

 

It IS a pretty common pattern on the Alfaia drum, in Maracatu music... just a little ways north up the coast in Pernambuco :)

Skip to 1:29 to hear it:

[video:youtube]uppBVWp7s9Y

 

... all of which makes me want to say that I'm not really sure that we should call Brazilian music "Latin". There is this whole, rich, diverse, musical awesomeness happening there and much of it has very little in common with what we usually think of as "Latin" music. My apologies to any Brasileiros who disagree-- please correct me.

 

AND Maracatu is so freaking cool. Mangue Beat, which is a rock/Funk/Maracatu descendent is badass. Listen to Chico Science And Nacao Zumbi for a serious rethinking of Brazilian music. "Girl From Ipanema", it aint!

 

 

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