Bachata - does anyone have transcriptions...

[Obi]

Hey gang,

I was wondering if anyone has transcriptions for Bachata. ???

Obi

[Mr. Furley]

Yeah I would like to seem something too. When I've seen local salsa or meregue groups playing a bachata, the conguero seems to be just playing the tumbao for a bolero.

[Ecuarumba]

Well, Bachata doesn't traditionally have congas in it, just Bongos and Guira. But if you wanted to....I personally would play a bolero over the more tipico type bachata tunes because that's what bachata was originally modeled after and you'll see that the voice/inst phrasing is very similiar. Something closer to a cha cha or guajira would work much better for the modern tunes.

Hope this helps!

[Obi]

Something closer to a cha cha or guajira would work much better for the modern tunes.

I've actually been listening to some Bachata recently that seems closer to Merengue...

When I've seen local salsa or meregue groups playing a bachata, the conguero seems to be just playing the tumbao for a bolero.

This is quite common for Pachanga as well, which is a faster variation of Bolero. (at least the way I learned it)

In the rhythms section of the "conga Book" on this site there is some additional Info which states that Pachanga is a variation of Charanga.

I guess there are always different schools of thought....

I did come across this on a website dediceted to Merengue and Bachata:
http://home-3.worldonline.nl/~pjetax/historias/history_bachata.html

Defining Bachata
The music that today is called bachata emerged from and belongs to a long-standin Pan-Latin American tradition of guitar music, música de guitarra, which was typically played by trios or quartets comprised of one or two guitars (or other related stringed instrument such as the smaller requito), with percussion provided by maracas and/or other instruments such as claves (hardwood sticks used for percussion), bongo drums, or a gourd güiro scraper. Sometimes a large thumb bass called marimba or marimbula was included as well. When bachata emerged in the early 1960s, it was part of an important subcategory of guitar music, romantic guitar music -as distinguished from guitar music intended primarily for dancing such as th Cuban son or guaracha- although in later decades, as musicians began speeding up the rhythm and dancers developed a new dance step, bachata began to be considered dance music as well. The most popular and widespread genre of romantic guitar music in this century, and the most influential for the development of bachata, was the Cuban bolero (not to be confused with the unrelated Spanish bolero). Bachata musicians, however, also drew upon other genres of música de guitarra that accomplished guitarists would be familiar with, including Mexican rancheros and corridos, Cuban son, guaracha and guajira, Puerto Rican plena and jibaro music, and the Colombian-Ecuadorian vals campesino and pasillo- as well as the Dominican merengue, which was originally guitar-based.

Obi



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