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Hi! I am Branson Garner on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today we are going to be talking about playing
Latin rhythms on the bass, the upright bass. To start off, everything in Latin music is
based on the rhythm, and on the counts. There’s a lot of different sort of feels, and today
we are going to be focussing on clave feels and Bossa Nova feels. Alright, so this first
one, like I said, is a 6-8 clave. The beats are…first measure you pronounce on 1, 3
and 5. Then the second measure you accent the off beats. The rhythm sounds like this.
As you put the notes to it, this is what it is going to sound like. You can really hear
that pulsing rhythm that gives a Latin beats such a great feel. That is the 6-8 clave.
Alright the next rhythm is one that is used often in a lot of Latin music. You can hear
it in a lot of popular Latin music, as well as Latin jazz, and it is a rhythm called Tumbao.
And it focuses on the off beat of 2, and you can notice that as I play it. You can go with
changes. That is the Tumbao rhythm.