Omelenko1 wrote:When you play Afro Cuban music (Salsa, latin dance music) you have to play a straight tumbao and for the most part on "one conga" only, when the coro or mambo comes, then you incorporate the tumbao using two congas. When the sonero is singing you keep the tumbao on one conga, the timbalero plays cascara and the bongocero plays martillo. When the mambo breaks and the coro begins, the conguero incorporates the tumbao on two congas, the timbalero plays the bell and the bongocero plays the cowbell. This is the "mandated" discipline that must be followed when playing Latin dance music or Salsa.
Thanks for an interesting thread!
I'd love to know more about the rules of the Afro Cuban "mandated discipline" as Dario calls it. I'm very aware that there are right and wrong places to play certain things. I've found lots of resources explainging rhythms through this forum and the Tomas Cruz / Spiro / Ed Uribe works etc but I've seen less on traditional structures of the music, in the sense of when is expected to to play X and not Y. Or when is it ok to do A but not B etc.
Hope that makes sense?
If anyone has any resources they can direct me to I'd be very interested to learn more.
Thanks!