Folklorics meets urbanix

Welcome to Greg "Palmito" Beuthin's website focusing on drumming, rhythm and performance.

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Pakito Baeza: Tecnica de Changuito II

Pakito Baeza: Tecnica de Changuito II
Pakito Baeza: Tecnica de Changuito II From: OniroFlauta Views: 62 0 ratings Time: 00:20 More in Music

Microtiming - hands-on, and a master example

While looking for an online drum machine that would make it simpler to give examples of rhythms on this blog, I stumbled across ZeFrank's sequencer (old link, via O'Reilly).  This is a lot of fun to play around with, partly because of the unexpected sounds, but also because you can slide the timing of each sound around within the bars.

Swing Pairs: Shifting from 4/4 to 12/8

[Update:  I'm fixing up this post that rambled off in too many directions - a victim of late night posting.  This post deals with the "Swing Pairs" - similar rhythms that shift between 12/8 and 4/4.  See here for the exercise and chart of the comparison of rumba clavé and 6/8 clavé....]

Excercise shifting from 4/4 son clavé to 12/8 bembé feel

[Note:  This post deals examines the difference between rumba clavé and bembé clavé.  For the shift from 4/4 to 6/8, see here.]

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