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Uploaded by on Feb 9, 2011

A tutorial about how you can play the rhythm Abakua (Havanna style) on congas.
Abakua is a rhythm from the secret societies in Cuba.

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  • wow, nice canal an very nice video, thx a lot man!!!!!!

  • @alemancito84 Your welcome! In a few weeks I'll post a video with the other abakua from Matanzas.

  • Amazing, I was wondering where you get these rhythms from. If you have transcriptions, like sheet music for them. Amazing, I just have to find a lot of people now to practice these

  • @zarapico I've learned these rhythms in Cuba and also when my Cuban teacher came to Holland. Great rhythms in Cuba! I don't have the sheet music ....yet, but perhaps I'll write the rhythms down one day.

  • @mdm2230 I see, I am from Cuba but I didn't learn about percussion there, I left 17 years ago. I have some rhythms notated if you are ever interested, like Palo, Yuka, Abakua, Iyesa, Arara, Conga, Bembe, etc. As a matter of fact, while I watched your videos I would look at my sheet music and compare, some minor differences here and there in performance styles and such but your rhythms are dead on, you have great memory to remember all of those.

  • @zarapico I'm allways interested in notated rhythms! Perhaps you can scan a rhythm and send it to me? There are a lot of ways that people write rhythms of percussion down and I am allways curious. Because I have also my own way of writing it down.When I studied in Cuba, I recorded a lot of the lessons and most of the rhythms are still in my head....

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  • suuuuuuupperrrrr !!!! lo se tocar pero demostraste muy bien los tambores separados! gracias

  • Quinto and Tres Golpi parts are different, but the Salidor pattern is the same for both Matanzas and Habana styles. And no Guataca or Shekere in Habana style.

  • very very god!!usted ser un gran maertro ashe orula a l usted hermano gracia

    yboru iboia yboshishe!!onareo

  • @mdm2230 Sure thing man, write me a private message with your email address and I'll send them to you

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