KidCuba wrote:Derbeno, could you guide me to where I could purchase the book?
vasikgreif wrote:I didn't go thru the whole thread, but anyway, I just would like to say, that I feel, that intellectual analyzing how the "fix" works is wrong way to learn it, the same as learning batá from sheet music. You know, we US/EU guys found a way how to "learn" cuban music from books, scores, "understanding" how the music works. But that's not the real thing.
With all the respect to Spiro - he knows A LOT of stuff and has a gift to explain things - anyway you can see in his videos, that the swing isn't something that comes from understanding the music intetectually - just compare his and Jesus Diaz lessons.
The only way to learn the music right is to have a great cuban player next to you to show you how to play, and trying to repeat what he does. Forget books, scores or whatever - listen and repeat - that's what I'm trying to do.
Quinto Governor II wrote:My simple mind says to me why can't charts be written in clave if it is such an exact musical reality? If phrases are started and ended within 2 bars are they naturally in clave?
RhythmRhyme wrote:A funny thing for me is that when I went to train with a classically trained cuban timbale player, a guy who had been formally trained in music schools in cuba and really could play any percussion instrument well, one of the first things he talked about was "fix".
jorge wrote:Who was that? Was he born and raised in Cuba? Of course this is only my experience but I never met a Cuban who talked about "fix", most rumberos I know don't even use concepts like 4, 6 or downbeat in their discussions of rumba. Only one of the best rumba drummers I have known even knows (knew) how to read and write music.
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