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My Musical Journey rqshquesada 7,065 views Here is a photo slide show of my musical journey over the years. Here you see photos from as far back as 15 or more years ago. The music you hear in the background is f...
6/8 Clave for Beginners rqshquesada 12,435 views This is the fourth video that follows tips for how to play clave sticks. Its the 6/8 Clave. This one is a little tricky if you never played in six. Listen to where I tel...
How to Play Son Clave - For Beginners rqshquesada 9,235 views This is the third video that follows tips for how to play clave sticks. Its the Son Clave. NOTE: Please disregard the statement about moving the third clave beat forwar...
How to play Rumba Clave - For Beginners rqshquesada 7,926 views This is the second video that follows tips for how to play clave sticks. Its actually the Rumba Clave. Take a look below for noted info on understanding how Rumba Clave...
Conga Rhythm - For Beginners rqshquesada 48,639 views Here's another pattern for you to learn that's quite simple. This is called the Conga pattern or also known as Comparsa. There's many parts to this ryhthm, but for the sake...
Timba on Congas - For Beginners rqshquesada 101,530 views Here's a nice pattern that you can learn that's different than Son, Mambo, or other types of basic patterns that most beginners learn. This rhythm is called Timba. Don'...
Guaguanco on Three Congas - For Beginners rqshquesada 36,419 views Please make sure to start on my video that I created on two congas for beginners before starting here. This is the best way I can break it down for all you beginners to ...
Guaguanco on two congas - for beginners rqshquesada 115,165 views This is the best way I can break it down for all you beginners to learn how to play Guaguanco on two congas. You'll find my teaching style quite unique to other people's wa...
Jose Luis Changuito Quintana - Timbale Solos rqshquesada 36,510 views I thought for once I'd do something different so you can see just how Changuito changes up the flavor of his solos. I've edited some audio files and grabbed some images fro...
Merensongo - Changuito rqshquesada 54,727 views Check this demonstration from Changuito on how to play Merensongo. Good Luck to you and hope you study smart and don't kill yourself. Music is mostly mental. Don't forge...

About Mr. Contimba

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rqshquesada

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Feb 20, 2012

Date Joined

Aug 24, 2006

About this user

Date: 1/17/2012
Time: 1 PM

Hello Everyone - Thanks for stopping by my youtube page.

My style: I have found that many teachers on YouTube demonstrate how to play rhythms, but in no way make it easy for beginners to learn. I make it simple and fun for you to learn by playing very slow. If you've never played before and have the feeling you want to start; then you've come to the right place.

I believe my teaching concept works well for anyone, especially beginners. Don't worry about going fast right now; that will come later. Beginners always get fired up by seeing percussionists play fast, and then they want to try and replicate what they see and hear. Take your time, practice slow, then, gradually pick up the tempo later.

Key Note: You need to learn tones, then rhythm, then timing, then Clave (really all of these are interchangeable, but the tones should come first). Trust me, if you do this, you'll see the difference in your playing as you develop into a more experienced percussionist.

Why am I sharing all of this with you? For the beginners, I've created videos for you to understand the basic approach to learning how to develop the most important thing to play the congas; as mentioned before, this happens to be the tones. When you begin to develop the sound of the tones with technique, you can then move onto the basic rhythms / first rhythms for beginners like the Bolero.

What level do you play at? I would like to say that my YouTube site is not just for beginners but for intermediate and advanced players too. So everyone enjoy!

The Cuba videos... For many years I dreamed about traveling to Cuba, and in the summer of 2000 I was able to see that dream come true. Today I'm sharing most of my memories, experience, and lessons that I brought back from that wonderful experience.

A word about comments: I decided to turn the comments back on for all of my videos. I had the comments turned off because I couldn't keep up with the spam or negative comments that some vicious You tubers would leave. Let it be known that negative comments in any nature that I feel are rude or derogatory will be deleted promptly.
Also, I'm very selective about what I want to keep from comments on my videos since I try to filter negative from good.

In regards to comments of good nature, I want to personally thank all of you who've commented my videos with nothing more than positive feedback; you're the ones that inspire me to share more.

Finally, I want to say thanks to all of you for the success of my YouTube channel by subscribing to it and for those who haven't yet; you should because you won't be disappointed.

-rudy

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