by windhorse » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:36 pm
As I said, Chris also called this pattern "Guiro".
It's the ONLY drum part with bell and shaker doing the rest.
We tried it here with the full compliment of players only once,,, but it was AWESOME!
About the variance you guys mentioned, if you've been playing a while, you know how it is; everyone says they know a particular rhythm. You learn it from them their way. Then, you run across others who are equally expert, and they show it to you another way - and you recognize similarities. Case in point, we play Mozambique 5 different ways (which we learned from 4 different sources) - that is, if you count separately all the lead patterns, and all the secondary patterns.
I was taught Iyesa two different ways. One way uses sticks - via Afro-Cuban camp in Humboldt, the other just hands. The hands only way came directly from the Monequitos when they were in Boulder, and I prefer and play it much more than the other due to the really cool interplay of touches and muffs which the other leaves out. So, one may prefer methods which are underground creations that came directly from masters' brainstorming, to more established tried and true methods. This one that was taught to me as "Agbe" may be just that... BTW,, the last part of the variations that I showed on the clip where the tones build up to the slap signaling the "&" just before the "one" was my own creation - based on the "feel" that I got from Chris's demonstrations.
That's why everyone should qualify the rhythm they teach with where they got it. It's always going to be different from somebody else's teacher, but in my opinion they're all equally valid - at least here in the melting pot.
Dave