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Here are some videos of rhythms...you may have seen them played this way and maybe not ...so here they come...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3365JHkH6GU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqyTIbVbQpw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxw5q0JXSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx65ZCEYOBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZzO18WVP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiZjlq8t9_0 I hope u like them!...Johnny Conga

I like seeing those old school patterns up close. Thanks.
-David

Here is how I play the Calypso rhythm with a variation at the end...JC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxw5q0JXSk

Thanks and more! Very nicely made videos, the angle of view provides me as a student with everything that I need to learn. Such beautiful elegance in rhythm and technique, as well. For me, for sure, these are musical gold nuggets.

This is one of the many ways Mongo played his tumbao...this is with his 'patented' 8th note slaps..which sometimes he also played both strokes with his right hand alone...now i count each stroke as a quarter note to make it 1 2 3 4 5 with the slap or tone on 5 u can also count it in 8th notes and it becomes a 6 1+2+3 4+5+6 slap/tone on 3 and 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qlNirbw98k

here is another way he played a tumbao...try speeding it up and see how it sounds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua8fMvQYqTw

Here is a 3rd variation of the way Mongo played his tumbaos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcoQAZl8Zo

Guaguanco variations and Bossa Nova variations....

http://youtu.be/rv0npWdR7Pk