Son and Rumba Clave: Learn the Rhythm!
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2015
- Learn the son and rumba clave beats and rhythms in this video lesson.
Practice playing the clave with the Latin Percussion White Wood Clave: amzn.to/1X5AzJd
The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba, conga, son, mambo, salsa, songo, timba and Afro-Cuban jazz. The five-stroke clave pattern represents the structural core of many Afro-Cuban rhythms.
The clave pattern originated in sub-Saharan African music traditions, where it serves essentially the same function as it does in Cuba. In ethnomusicology, clave is also known as a key pattern, guide pattern, phrasing referent, timeline, or asymmetrical timeline. The clave pattern is also found in the African diaspora musics of Haitian Vodou drumming, Afro-Brazilian music and Afro-Uruguayan music (candombe). The clave pattern is used in North American popular music as a rhythmic motif or ostinato, or simply a form of rhythmic decoration.
The hand percussion instrument known as claves, consist of a pair of short (about 20-30 cm (7.9-11.8 in), thick dowels. Traditionally they are made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla. In modern times they are also made of fibreglass or plastics.
When struck they produce a bright clicking noise. Claves are sometimes hollow and carved in the middle to amplify the sound.
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This man is by far the absolute best teacher of Latin music I have ever come across on video in the thirty or so years that I've been interested in learning about it.
Thank you Sir. I appreciate your comment very much. I was lucky I had myself a good pack of good teachers explaining things to me in a clear and understandable way... Muchas Gracias!
Thank you for this! I am a middle school science teacher in the South Bronx, and proud Nuyorican. We have different signals to get the students' attention. I love to use the clave beat. I clap it as the call to attention, and the students clap it back to let me know they hear me and they are ready. Its a great way to affirm their african roots (since all life originated there), and it brings a lot of joy. But many of them were unfamiliar with the clave beat. So I played the beginning of your video and they got it right away! 🥰
Is it a call and responce thing ? You do the first part and they respond? 2/3 or 3/2.
I learned to play the clave rhythm on a cowbell. The 6/8 on an iron ago-go, with the 1 on the lower bell.
This was for basic African rhythms played on conga/djembe. Later I learned rhumba clave rhythm. That’s was in the mid 90’s. Our instructor taught us that if we choose to play cowbell or clave we have to be ON IT, as far as keeping time. Not only to keep the time for the musicians, also because it is loud. Great video. They are some sad sticks being sold as ‘clave’. No punch, too small. Old rosewood ones are the best!!!
Really nice to get a little context. You convey ”feel” and conscious knowledge.
Glad you liked it!
I'm amazed at how complex it is to beat two pieces of wood together. Very informative video thank you!
I love Cuban music and I play. Absolutely correct, clave was developed in Cuba. It originated in Sub Saharan Africa. Just an observation. Give Thanks
I was searching something like this for my intro to Son class this coming weekend and I have to say - one of the best videos I've seen on Cuban rhythm. I'm not a musician but everything taught in this video will make me a better dancer.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Man!!! This hurt my brain so much (in a good way), well done.. esp at 31:11 the singing alongside rumba clave, best exercise ever to learn to hear the beats!! Thank you. EDIT: I've now listened to a few songs and was finally able to hear the clave rithm :-)) great explanations, so comprehensive
Thank you so much for the explanation! I have always been so confused between the 2/3 and 3/2 claves and Son and Rumba clave rhythm, thinking that whichever side the 2 and 3 counts hit made them either Son or Rumba claves. I have asked people and Googled to try to figure it out and you totally cleared up the confusion for me. Your explanation is so clear and thorough.
This video is so so good. 6 years late to the party but wow. So insightful!
What a fabulous class. My favorite teacher, by far. Fun and informative. If you want to learn percussion, this is the place to start.
You explained Claves perfectly. I like your style.
I can't learn this fast enough! Thank you, Papi!
Love home boys t-shirt in these videos, awesome energy!
La mejor y mas detallada explicación que he visto para entender la clave !!!!! Gracias !!!!
Muchisimas gracias! I'm taking an Afro-cuban percussion class and your tutorial has really helped me to understand the fundamentals of the clavé and where it fits in. I am looking forward to learning how these clavé rhythms fit with the conga, bongo, and timbales rhythms! Hasta luego!
Thank you so much for your excellent teaching method. Your singing of rhythms and melodic counting helps so much. 🙏
You have cleared up so much muckery in this video. I love your combination of love for the music, your cerebriality, and the fact that it moves your body too. All three are important to me. Thanks so much!
This video has helped me so much in being able to stay dancing on beat during complex salsa songs. Thank you!
Very, very well explained. Best instruction I have ever seen on this concept!
Great explanation. I enjoy finding clave in many rock & roll recordings from the 50s,60s, 70s then pointing it out to my music loving friends I've tried to enlighten. 3,2 clave is all over pop music.
Excellent, thank you! You're probably the only guy who can make a 45 min video on a (seemingly) simple two bar rhythm and make it interesting as well as entertaining... very good & helpful resource on the topic!! Best wishes to you, your family & friends!!!
Thank you!
I just received my first set of claves an hour ago and found you on RUclips. Thank you! You’re a great teacher with a passion for rhythm.
Awesome! Thank you!
if you need a good example of each watch 12 mins in to 15
Very few know how to teach theory, history of the instrument, and how to execute the rhythmic patterns.
AWESOME ‼️
I have no words to thank you, Dance Papi! Greetings from Greece and fairwell!
Thank you so much!
I feel like I'm in your living room......you have given me more understanding of the Clave in 45 min than I had discovered in 2years of playing Tumbau......many thanks Edgardo!
Thank you for the kind comments! We have new videos coming soon!
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I've just stated latin jazz piano lesson. So it was worth watching this lesson. Thank you very much. I was reading about clave as a pattern played on the pulse of the song. Tbey said that it's as important in lafro-cuban music as swing is in traditional jazz.
De muchos de los videos aca en youtube, este viejo es el mejor, the music is in Dance Papis blood!
Thank you so much for this! The together-hand-foot starting at 20:15 really made it a lot better for me ! Great, thanks !!!
Excellent video.!!...I invite you to know why THE KEY is...THE KEY..
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I kept asking dance teachers if you could tell the difference between a 3:2 and 2:3 Clave if the Clave is implicit only.
None of them could give me a decent answer. Finally I have my answer as to how the other instruments are arranged around the Clave. Thank you..
Edgardo, your videos are SO informative. They're really dripping with knowledge and context, I always pick up on so many new details! Thanks from Pennsylvania.
Thank you Urie!
Playing along with this video is great. Thus guys a good teacher.
Gracias! Muy bien explicado la diferencia entre son y rumba clave. Ahora a enseñar musica cubana a los alumnos aqui e Dinamarca.
Thanks a lot.
This video is so much helpfully for me, and now i clearly understand the differences or the types of clave.
God bless you.
Thank you Widy!
Great lesson! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with the world!
Thank you. Very understandable. i would love to see more Videos about Salsa / Afro Cuban music & instruments.
Greetings from Germany
Never listened to Latin music a day in my life and just watched this dude talking about these tiny logs for almost an hour...
These tiny logs can groove... :-)
Shane, welcome to Latin Music (African based Latin Music), I take your comment as a great compliment! Thanks for watching. Edgardo.
no soy cubana pero oírte cantar guaguanco(si no es guaguanco perdona la ignorancia) me llego al alma que bonito
Gracias Ana!
wonderful class!He must be a experience educator,explaining all in a simply and clear way!Thank you so much!
Thank you Zishi!
Latin music therory awareness
I watched this video intently (and I will again and again). Thank you for your insight on Facebook to my question, and for your knowledge that you are sharing. You make me a better (aspiring) musician. - Gerry V.
Muchísimas gracias maestro, en esta clase ud. entrega un montón de conocimiento tan valioso. Saludos desde Chile!
Salud!
Thank you Dance Papi! 😊😎 I visited Cuba in Holguin and I loved the people. 😘
Salud!
thanks from germany for this very nice video. I learned a lot. :-)
Glad to hear that!
The best, Dance Papi! Gracias, amigo! Sabes que me gusta la camiseta! Bien firme!
Thank you so much, this is a fantastic class, grounded in tradition and delivered in a graceful and charming manner. I will share!
Salud!
Mil Gracias, Maestro
Love the way you teach...so natural and definitely have learnt loads having never played this instrument!
Thank you!
Bought 'Son' claves as a souvenir in Cuba... Now I can play them (correctly) too! ;-) Grtz from Son, Belgium
Happy playing!
Son Mertens what a perfect choice; the clave rhythm is perhaps the singular point of birth of every note and dynamic the band feels and plays to in Latin, which further heavily impacted every second of music that causes (forces) the body to move to the music. clave to me is a trance drug :)
enjoy much..... note that SOME AfroLatin songs play clave very explicitly, while others are much more subtle. When feeling it clicks, you'll never recover :)
Son Mertens nice to know in Belgium you enjoy the clave. We race pigeons "Duiven" here in America and Belgium is the birth place of it.
Thank you for posting. I just got some rumba claves.
Gracias Edgardo. Tus videos son clarísimos y muy generosos.
Salud!
Very good explanation of clave, thank you.
Excelentísima explicación maestro! Mil gracias!!! Voy a verme todos sus videos ya mismo.
Gracias Marco!
Thank you so much for this video. It clarifies what I have been telling my students. This is great.
Thanks for watching!
Great instruction! I'm an instant fan. And putting in some historical context, that just makes it all the more interesting. I'm eager to learn more from you folks.
Thank you Robert. We're lucky to have Edgardo as a featured instructor and we look forward to sharing many more videos with you in the future.
Yayyyy. I am a drummer and drumming instructor. I really think that Dance Papi is an EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT COMMUNICATOR! Remember that English is probably not even his first language, and yet his choice of words of explanation in English is absolutely superb. Of course you can tell that he has been speaking English for many years, and I'm sure also teaching in English. I have great respect for this amazing gentleman. He used fantastic, colorful analogies in his explanations also. What I particularly like here is that he is clearly explaining something that is second nature and indigenous to him since he was a boy growing up listening and dancing to his native music; and yet without condescending, he breaks it down and makes it very easy to understand to the non Latin musician or dancer. Anyway, bravissimo to a fabulous educator.
Outstanding! Thank you!!!
Wow. Brilliant. Well explained with lots of context. I love your enthusiasm. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
This is very good. I am the former undefeated World Salsa Champion, as well as Univisions Salsero Mas Caliente, (and a Gringo) would recommend this video for all Salseros to watch and practice. Your explanations and music interpretation for all is outstanding. Congratulations!
Thank you Issac! Very kind of you to say!
I was playing with the sound effect clave in Ableton live. Thank you for your clear explanation that helps me understand this instrument. Btw I practice along with this video by using chopsticks, and it was a great fun lol.
Great to hear!
You really understand how to teach! Thank you
Salud!
You are just awesome! Informative lesson and amazing vibe. Thank you so much!
Thank you Alina!
amazing! your explanation was just perfect!
Excellent explanation of the claves! Thanks a lot! You are such an inspirational teacher and player!!!
Excellent video.!!...I invite you to know why THE KEY is...THE KEY..
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What a great teacher. Lovely manner. Very helpful. Very "true" thank you
Thank you!
thank you great video, and love your smile when you sing!
Gracias Jay!
Thanks. You gave me a great understanding for the clave and I gonna feel it different now.
Muchas gracias Frank, Thank you!
I love using percussion instruments. I'm glad I landing on your channel! Great stuff!
Awesome, thank you!
Fascinating. Thanks for the lecture.
Such an easy listening clave lesson!! Best one ever!!
What a great, clear, helpful lesson! Gracias!
Thank you April!
Dear Edgardo,
Thanks for a wonderful lesson. You are both steeped in the music and an excellent communicator- it comes from the heart and one can see that even watching this video from miles away and years later! I am a blues guitarist trying to learn Latin beats. There is a fair amount of 6/8 or 3/4 crossover in traditional blues music also (same African roots I guess), but I was having some difficulty in reconciling the counts you showed in the 2 measures of 6 beats and how they fit into the 2 measures of 4 (around 26 min of your video). When you first counted the son clave you clearly showed us the beats as on 1, the 'and' following the 2, the 4 (these are the first 3) and the 2 and 3 of the second bar (those are the 2). Should if I got it right it should look like (X is the beat)
X a 2 X 3 a X a 1 a X a X a 4 a
Now when showing the feel of 6 beats, could you again explain how you are playing the cha cha bell by counting out those beats. It felt like 'slow slow slow fast; slow slow fast' I am a little confused because if I count 6 to a bar then the time measure of each will not be the same as the 4 to a bar. So I can't be sure if I play the six beat that it will fall exactly on the same instants as son clave on the 2 4-beat measures, although of course it should. Could you please clarify? I am not sure if I explained my question correctly. Thanks again, Shankar.
Thank you for analyzing the clave rhythm. Well understood I would appreciate deeply if you could mention the names of typical songs to practice with. I am a beginner and have almost no idea which song to choose to apply the lesson. Thank you again.
Very clear 👍
This is amazing. Super like! Thank you for making and sharing is wonderful knowledge!
Thanks for watching!
So great video
Many thanks
Now I know why I was confused while grouping strokes in rumba clave
Thanks for watching!
God bless you my man
Love your style, your teaching and heart to teach
Thank you for Helping me understand the clave, etc.
maybe some day i can put something out there to give back
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, clear explanation
wow extensive! thanks so much. gave me a lot to digest. Cheers from Singapore!
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for such an informative video.
Sharing with all my salsa friends :)
+nitesh dulal Thank you Nitesh!
Mil Gracias, Maestro.
Love your videos. I'm learning the bongo and thought I'd better get a good understanding of the clave. I'd love to see you do some more on the bongo. I feel I need to buy some Congas now plus a nice set of clave. Please keep the videos coming.
We'll be filming more bongo videos! Stay tuned!
Excellent! Thanks maestro !
Brilliant tutorial brother you really explained well. Excellent teaching sir.
Love this!
thank you very much! a wonderfull explaination, and less mystery about rythm for me :-)
+aquaviva We're happy to help! :-)
best explanation i've seen, thank you
Gracias por compartir
Master class... hugs from Portugal...
+Amandio Brito Gracias Amandio!
Super clear and super cool!! Gracias compay!!
soo well described! thanks.
Wow, this is so interesting and useful. Thank you! 🎶
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, this was very helpful and also a lot of fun to watch. :)
Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much! So helpfull! Best wishes from Vienna!
Thank you!
great lesson! thanks so much.
Muchas Gracias!!
This is such a great video. Thank you
Excellent video.!!...I invite you to know why THE KEY is...THE KEY..
ruclips.net/video/vat7dXPLHDI/видео.html
Excelente Maestro, Muchas Gracias.
+Grand Talent Salud!
Thank you, Dance Papi. Great lesson.
Our pleasure!
Thanks so much for the detailed instructions...
Cheers!