Learn to play Cuban Music, the Cuban Laud & Son Montuno

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Learn about the Cuban laud and learn a son-montuno pattern.

Son is generic term but it refers to a song with a repeating pattern and no real B section. The song we are showing today is son montuno, this means it has a B section. This is where all the musicians "kick it up", and the pattern is called "tumbao".

This music is almost always played as a head or verse section that may repeat and usually has a harmonic change in the B or "coro" section. This coro section is improvisation, both vocally and musically with the underlying "tumbaos", it could be bass or tres or laud or even piano being the glue.

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 son montuno.

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[drbrydie]

Does anyone have the the TABS or sheet music for this? Please provide a link. Thanks! db

[tresero2862]

@drbrydie I will try to do a transcription, it is just low on my priority list at the moment. I am finishing the Cuban Masters Series DVDS.

[freekyton]

Is the song she playing Agallu Sola by Celina Y Reutilio ? And are there anymore videos with this girl playing the lute?

[tresero2862]

@freekyton I am not sure about the song, but it could be. Also, there are a couple more videos with her on my channel. I don't think I have anymore laud video unfortunately. This is all many years old, she is not a girl anymore!

[tresero2862]

La afinacion es en mi web salsablanca /ethno/laud

[1Mehring1]

@mdubuque

Having wandered Oriente for several weeks, been to Baracoa, Santiago, passed Guantanamo, and through Alto Songo and La Maya slept in the hills near El Cobre I have to dispute that Son was 'urban music' before it arrived in Havana. It may be less rural than the music it had evolved from- slightly- but La Habana was the only truly urban environment in the island.

To describe the addition of clave and bongo as urbanisation is also contentious, it being a fusion of rural styles.

[freekyton]

@ShamefulBoner it's a she.

[ShamefulBoner]

man,that weird bass line thing he's doing at around 2:10 is amazing.can anyone play it one guitar.so it would be easier to figure out.thanks

[rainbowpal3]

it would be 1 octave higher and not sound like a guitar ;)

[Solstisol]

...or even a lute.

=0)

[mikeherna57]

Ya lo conoce....