Learn to play Cuban Music, the Cuban Laud & Punto Guajiro

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Learn about the Cuban laud and learn a traditional Punto Guajiro pattern.

Punto Guajiro is peasant music from the western part of the island. It was used as party music, much as rumba was in the cities and changüi was in the east. It has different ensemble instrumentation depending on the area and also what was available.

This music is almost always played in 6/8 time and there are several stylistic variations, the most common being punto libre and punto fijo. In punto libre, the band stops as the singer sings and the laud plays fills. In punto fijo the band does not stop.

This was recorded at the Escuela Nacional de Artes in Havana Cuba, and features the basic pattern and also some improvisation that would be played in punto libre.


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Music

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• Playing-Cuban-music
• Cuban-laud
• punto-guajiro
• instruction
• ensemble
• ethnomusicology
• tumbao

[aniani717]

el punto guajiro lo trajeron los canarios a cuba te lo dise un cubano

[tresero2862]

Tiene raices en Los Canarios, pero es un estilo Cubano.

[cagethug]

A que le llaman tumbao dicen?

[tresero2862]

punto libre

[tresero2862]

Martillo means hammer, but in the music sense it really is a pattern played on the bongo that sounds like a "hammer"

[tresero2862]

I don't believe so, at least easily. You would have to have a luthier rework the nut and bridge at the least, but I am not sure what the tension would be like. It would be interesting to try, but I would suggest playing it the way it is. Otherwise you just have a guitar and won't get the "style" the physical limitations of the instrument create.

I hope that helps.

[rockero2511]

Very informative... Good if you're really interested in the laúd, changüi, and Cuban music in general.